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安装and using a terminal emulator

Introduction

This guide will show the process of installing and configuring a terminal emulator. For Windows the tutorial will be using Tera Term which is an open-source, free, software implemented, terminal emulator. For Linux(Ubuntu 16.4) the tutorial will be using PuTTY which is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application. Digilent uses these terminal emulators in our demos for communicating through the USB UART and Ethernet on Digilent FPGAs.

Prerequisites

  • 13.3MBof free hard-drive space in Windows for Tera Term.
  • 611.3kB of free hard-drive space in LINUX(Ubuntu 16.04) for PuTTY

Guide

1. Installing a Terminal Emulator

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2. Using a Terminal Emulator

2.1

2.2