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Configuring your terminal window

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Appendix A

Configuring your terminal window

The terminal window connected to the STM8S-DISCOVERY must be configured with the

following settings valid for all terminal types:

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Communication port: COM1 or other available

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Bits per second: 9600

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Data bits: 8

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Parity: none

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Stop bits: 1

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Flow control: none

To provide a ready-to-use application example, a preconfigured terminal using Windows

HyperTerminal and COM1 port is provided within the project folder. To launch it, simply

execute the .ht file included in the project.

However, you can also set up a new connection with the STM8S-DISCOVERY based on

Windows HyperTerminal and related to this example by following the steps below:

1.

Open Windows HyperTerminal application and choose a connection name, such as

“MyConnection” and validate it by clicking OK.

Figure 8.

Launching Windows HyperTerminal