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| 1. Open a Terminal Window. You can do this in Linux by searching for "Terminal" within the "Show Applications" widget in the bottom left hand corner. | 1. Open a Terminal Window. You can do this in Linux by searching for "Terminal" within the "Show Applications" widget in the bottom left hand corner. | ||
| - | 1. Install PuTTY. Run "sudo apt-get install -y putty" in the terminal.This command will require your machine's password. | + | 1. Install PuTTY - to do so run "sudo apt-get install -y putty" in the terminal. |
| 3. To launch PuTTY, run "sudo putty" in the terminal. | 3. To launch PuTTY, run "sudo putty" in the terminal. | ||
| 4. You are ready to use PuTTy! You can adapt the instructions here [[tutorials:putty|]],to help you get PuTTY configured correctly. Skip ahead to the PuTTy Setup Section. As a Linux user, your serial port will be either ttyUSB0 or ttyUSB1. | 4. You are ready to use PuTTy! You can adapt the instructions here [[tutorials:putty|]],to help you get PuTTY configured correctly. Skip ahead to the PuTTy Setup Section. As a Linux user, your serial port will be either ttyUSB0 or ttyUSB1. | ||
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| + | =====Testing Your PuTTY===== | ||
| + | You can test whether your PuTTY is working by setting it up as detailed above and then programming a NEXYS4 DDR FPGA board with {{ :tutorials:tx_top.bit | this file}}. | ||
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| + | Once you have programmed the board with this bitfile, every time you push the center button ('btnc') on the board it will print out a message on the serial line saying the putty test worked. If you see the message, all is working. If not, some debugging is in order. | ||
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