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Texas Instruments TMS320DM6446 DVEVM v2.0 User Manual

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Connecting to a Console Window

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2.2

Connecting to a Console Window

You can open a console window that allows you to watch and interrupt
EVM boot messages by following these steps:

1) Connect a serial cable between the serial port on the EVM and the

serial port (for example, COM1) on a PC.

2) Run a terminal session (such as Minicom on Linux or HyperTerminal

on Windows) on the workstation and configure it to connect to that
serial port with the following characteristics:

■ Bits per Second: 115200
■ Data Bits: 8
■ Parity: None
■ Stop Bits: 1
■ Flow Control: None

3) When you power on the EVM, you will see boot sequence messages.

You can press a key to interrupt the boot sequence and type
commands in the U-Boot command shell. In this guide, commands to
be typed in the U-Boot shell are indicated by an

EVM #

prompt.