Using a Terminal Emulator on Linux
This tutorial is meant as a guide for using the serial function of the Terminal Emulator with Digilent Boards. This tutorial shows how to PuTTY on Ubuntu machines.
Open PuTTY SSH Client. It is the same interface as on a Windows OS.
1.Session
Serial Connections
The Serial Connection uses a Serial line to communicate through UART from the Terminal Emulator to the Digilent boards. You can configure the Serial line and Baud rate on the Sessions page.
- Serial line refers to a serial port. Serial ports are used to communicate to through UART to embedded systems.
- Speed refers to baud rate. Baud rate is the speed that data is being transmitted and is expressed as bits per second.
- For Microblaze projects the default baud rate is 9600. For Zynq projects the default baud rate is 115200.
2.TERMINAL OPTIONS
The options in this category influence terminal emulation and keyboard mappings. The local echo option allows what is being typed into the PuTTy Terminal to be visible.
3.CONNECTION OPTIONS
The Serial Setup page is used to configuring the Serial line, Speed (Baud), Data bits, Parity, Stop bits and Flow control in the terminal Emulator to match the Digilent boards Serial setup. Typically the Data, Parity, and are left at default setting.
- Serial line refers to a serial port. Serial ports are used to communicate to through UART to embedded systems.
- Speed refers to baud rate. Baud rate is the speed that data is being transmitted and is expressed as bits per second.
- For Microblaze projects the default baud rate is 9600. For Zynq projects the default baud rate is 115200.
- Flow control should be set to none.
