====== Installing and Using a Terminal Emulator  ======
===== Introduction =====

This guide will show the process of installing and configuring a terminal emulator. For Windows, this tutorial will be using Tera Term which is an open-source, free, software-implemented, terminal emulator. For Linux, the tutorial will use PuTTY, which is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console, and network file transfer application. Digilent uses these terminal emulators in our demos for communicating through the USB UART and Ethernet on Digilent FPGAs. 

**Note:** //For Linux, Digilent uses Ubuntu 16.4, as it is the only distribution supported by Vivado. This and other tutorials may or may not be applicable to other Linux distros.//
===== Prerequisites =====

  * **Windows:** 13.3 MB of free hard-drive space for Tera Term.
  * **Linux:** 611.3 kB of free hard-drive space for PuTTY

===== Guide =====

=== 1. Installing a Terminal Emulator  ===
The Windows and Linux links below are a step by step tutorial on installing a Terminal Emulator.

  * [[programmable-logic:guides:serial-terminals:windows-installation]]
  * [[programmable-logic:guides:serial-terminals:linux-installation]]

=== 2. Using a Terminal Emulator ===
The Windows and Linux links below are a tutorial on using a Terminal Emulator. 
  *[[programmable-logic:guides:serial-terminals:windows]]
  *[[programmable-logic:guides:serial-terminals:linux]]



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