Open a Terminal

You can use any terminal program, such as Putty, termite, or the built-in terminal in the Efinity RISC-V Embedded Software IDE, to connect to the UART. These instructions explain how to use the built-in terminal while the others are similar.

  1. In Efinity RISC-V Embedded Software IDE, choose Window > Show View > Terminal. The Terminal tab opens.
  2. Click the Open a Terminal button.
  3. In the Launch Terminal dialog box, enter these settings:
    Option Setting
    Choose terminal Serial Terminal
    Serial port COMn (Windows) or ttyUSBn (Linux)
    where n is the port number for your UART module.
    Baud rate 115200
    Data size 8
    Parity None
    Stop bits 1
    Encoding Default (ISO-8859-1)
  4. Click OK. The terminal opens a connection to the UART.
  5. Run your application. Messages are printed in the terminal.
  6. When you are finished using the application, click the Disconnect Terminal Connection button.