Flasher - Virtual COM Port

Flashers provide a virtual COM (VCOM) port when connected to a PC via USB.

Flasher's VCOM recognized as a COM port in Windows device manager.

Purpose

Flasher's VCOM port is used as a channel to access Flashers' terminal.

Note:
Not to be confused with J-Link's VCOM port.

Using serial connection via VCOM to access the Flasher's terminal.

Connection

PuTTY settings for Flasher's VCOM

Flasher's VCOM port is always enabled. When connected to a PC, the operating system will recognize it as a COM port.
Terminal applications (like PuTTY or hTerm) can connect to Flasher's VCOM port in the same way as any other COM port.

The following settings should be used to connect:

• Any baudrate
  • Other than J-Link's VCOM port, the configured baudrate does not matter in this case.
    Any baudrate will work. It will not affect the actual communication speed of the terminal.
• 8 data bits
• no parity
• 1 stop bit