Once you have learned the ins and outs of a terminal application, it can be a very powerful tool in your electronics and programming arsenal.

They allow you to see data sent to and from your microcontroller, and that data can be used for a number of reasons including troubleshooting/debugging, communication testing, calibrating sensors, configuring modules, and data monitoring. In short, serial terminal programs make working with microcontrollers that much simpler. This tutorial is here to help you understand what these terms mean and how they form the larger picture that is serial communication over a terminal. For someone who isn't familiar with these terms and the context in which they are used, they can be confusing at times.

These are all words that get thrown around a lot when working with electronics, especially microcontrollers.

The transferred file is then available at /home/root on the STM32MP157F-DK2.

A progress bar shows the file transfer status as shown in the snapshot below.

Select the file to be transferred from the pop-up window (see an example in the snapshot below) and click on the Open tab.

To transfer a file from the host PC to STM32MP157F-DK2 ,click on the File menu in the top-left corner of the Tera Term window and go to >.

The virtual terminal (remote access) is displayed as shown in the snapshot below.

Open Tera Term on your PC and select the COM port (as found in step 3 above).

For example, in the snapshot below, the COM port number is 14.

Check the Virtual COM port number visible in the device manager.

Connect the STM32MP157F-DK2 Discovery kit to your PC via a USB Micro-B cable through CN11.

Plug the power cable to power-up the STM32MP157F-DK2.

Download and install Tera Term on your Windows ® PC and follow the steps listed below.

The purpose of this article is to specifically help users with steps to transfer any file from a Windows ® PC to the STM32MP157F-DK2 Discovery kit using 'Tera Term'. The article is written as an extension to the articles X-NUCLEO-NFC05A1 expansion board and X-NUCLEO-NFC06A1 expansion board.

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