This guide will show the process of installing and configuring a terminal emulator. For Windows, this tutorial will be using Tera Term which is an open-source, free, software-implemented, terminal emulator. For Linux, the tutorial will use 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.
Note: For Linux, Digilent uses Ubuntu 16.4, as it is the only distribution supported by Vivado. This and other tutorials may or may not be applicable to other Linux distros.
The Windows and Linux links below are a step by step tutorial on installing a Terminal Emulator.
The Windows and Linux links below are a tutorial on using a Terminal Emulator.