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DA14585/DA14586 Getting Started Guide with the PRO-Development Kit
User Manual
Revision 2.1
21-09-2018
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7.3
Configuring the Serial Port for UART
Several development tools require UART to be routed to the FTDI serial port. Refer to
Figure 31
in
Appendix B
for the ProDev Kit board connection verification and on how to properly configure the
specific port.
7.3.1
Using Serial Port
To make sure that the communication between the ProDev Kit board and the Windows development
host is properly established, it is necessary to verify the UART connection between the two nodes.
On the Windows host, Tera Term can be used to validate the connection to the ProDev Kit by following
these steps:
1.
Connect the ProDev Kit board to the PC via USB cable. The location of the board's USB port is
shown in
Figure 5
.
2.
Use the Windows Device Manager to verify that the host discovered two serial ports
– the first of
which is connected to UART, see
Figure 7
.
3.
Open Tera Term from the Windows Start menu as shown in
Figure 8
.
Figure 8: Start Tera Term
4.
In the Tera Term: New connection dialog, select Serial, then select the COM Port to use, and
click OK.
5.
Select Setup > Serial Port and configure your UART port using the parameters shown in
Table 1
(you need to be an administrator on your local machine), see
Figure 9
.
Table 1: Parameters for Connecting to UART
Settings
Values
Baud rate
115200
Data bits
8
Parity
None
Stop bits
1
Flow Control
None
