How can I use the serial-over-USB feature on TWR-5225x?

[Kopone]

Hi all,

I have a 5225x Tower sitting here and I found in the docs that I can route the UART0 to the OSBDM. I assume that the OSBDM will then transport the serial communication over the USB interface (much like the virtual serial port in the P&E interface).

However I cant find any documentation on how to actually use this.

Is there a driver available to make that serial-over-usb port visible on the PC as a regular serial interface so that I can just launch a terminal program?

Or is there some proprietary client available like the PE Terminal?

It would be great if someone could point me to what I probably overlooked, because that would save me from soldering something to hook up the PC to that 10-pin header on the dev board.

Regards,

 Sven

[admin · Accepted solution]

While the hardware hooks supporting serial to USB communications were added, the feature is not currently supported in firmware.  I am not aware of any effort to add the feature at this time.  The souce code is avialable for download and you are free to add the feature if desired. 

[Kopone]

Hi Spencer,

I doubt I'll find the time to add this feature myself, but the information is highly appreciated.

Thanks!

 Sven