How to transfer files using ‘Tera Term’(on Windows PC) to Discovery Kit

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The article is written as an extension to the article X-NUCLEO-NFC05A1 expansion board and X-NUCLEO-NFC06A1 expansion board. The purpose of this article is to specifically help users with steps to transfer any file from a Windows PC to the STM32MP157C-DK2 Discovery kit using "Tera Term" (http://tera-term.en.lo4d.com/). Please download and install Tera-Term on your Windows PC and follow steps explained here after.

Plug the power cable to power-up the STM32MP157C-DK2 .
Connect the STM32MP157C-DK2 Discovery kit to your PC via micro USB Type B cable through CN11.
Check the Virtual COM port number visible in the device manager. For example, in the snapshot below, the COM port number is 14.

VCOM Port Enumeration On DevManager.png

Open Tera-Term on your PC and select the COM port (as found in step 3 above). The baud rate should be 115200 baud. The virtual terminal (remote access) will appear as shown in below snapshot.

Snapshot Terminal TeraTerm.png

To transfer a file from host PC to STM32MP157C-DK2 ,click on File menu on top left corner of the Tera-Tem window and go to File>>Transfer>>ZMODEM>>Send. Refer to below snapshot

Snapshot TeraTerm ZMODEM Send.png

Select the file from pop up window (example in snapshot below) to be transferred and click on the Open tab.

Snapshot TeraTermOpenFile.png

A progress bar shows the status of file transfer. as shown in snapshot below

Snapshot FileTransferProgressBarTeraTerm.png

The transferred file is then available at location : /home/root on the STM32MP157C-DK2 .