I need to do some communication between 8051 micro-controller and PC . There used to be a hyper terminal for this purpose in windows XP. I m using windows 8 now. So can anyone suggest me some equivalent of hyper terminal in windows 8 for the purpose of serial comm. between micro-controller and PC.
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\$\begingroup\$ You may use Tera Term. \$\endgroup\$– user54579Commented Jan 1, 2013 at 7:54
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4\$\begingroup\$ Hyperterminal is usually considered horrible for a variety of reasons. Putty, RealTerm, TeraTerm and a few others are commonly used. \$\endgroup\$– Gustavo LitovskyCommented Jan 1, 2013 at 17:20
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\$\begingroup\$ Also see docklight \$\endgroup\$– kabZXCommented Aug 14, 2015 at 5:42
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\$\begingroup\$ For future reference, this may have been a better question for the SuperUser SE site. \$\endgroup\$– Adam LawrenceCommented Dec 21, 2015 at 15:51
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PuTTY, surprisingly enough, can act as a full-featured serial terminal. It supports full-blown VT-102/VT-80 command codes too.
There is Termite, which is a very nice, no-installation 200K exe:
Parallax also has a nice serial terminal.
answered Jan 1, 2013 at 8:00
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10\$\begingroup\$ +1 for PuTTY; one of the best damn little utilities to ever grace the blackened soul of a machine running Windows. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jan 1, 2013 at 17:37
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2\$\begingroup\$ PuTTY is a wonderful free program, and source is available too. +1 and kudos. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jan 1, 2013 at 17:40
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1\$\begingroup\$ Having cygwin for ssh connection only is like drying your hair with jet engine IMO. Also +1 to PuTTY. \$\endgroup\$– zzzCommented Feb 13, 2013 at 19:05
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1\$\begingroup\$ @zzz - But it gets your hair REALLY dry, REALLY fast ;) Anyways, I use the cygwin bash shell a lot too, so it's more that I had it already, then I installed it for just that purpose. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Feb 14, 2013 at 3:57
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RealTerm is also useful program..
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\$\begingroup\$ Does RealTerm work on Windows8? \$\endgroup\$– SwanandCommented Jan 2, 2013 at 4:40
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\$\begingroup\$ RealTerm 2.0.0.70 seems to work on Windows 8 (x64). Initially I had to run as administrator, but at some point something changed and now it works even if I don't run as administrator. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Mar 25, 2013 at 15:28
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HTerm is a gem!
I highly recommend you give it a try. While not being a pure terminal, it supports some nice features like (optional) concurrent display of Ascii, Hex, Dec and Bin. Its very straightforward to use and consists of a single exe file without any special dependencies.
I've used this on WinXP and Win7 without problems.
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I'll just add TeraTerm in and hTerm in case you're really going low-level, but mainly I use PuTTY.
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I use ScriptCommunicator. It has many features and a very useful script interface: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scriptcommunicator/
main window:
example script GUI:
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I like Terminal. It has a very easy to use interface, macro capability, and quick graphing tools.
answered Jan 1, 2013 at 18:19
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I generally use RealTerm. However I have had problems sometimes with it locking up in Windows 7, particularly with virtual COM ports like USB.
So I got a copy of HyperTerminal Private Edition, by Hilgraeve Inc. which is the company that wrote the original HyperTerminal for Microsoft. They indicate it works with Windows 7, 8, and Vista. As others have said, it isn't that great a terminal program but it was able to connect to a virtual COM port in Windows 7 on a development board that RealTerm was unable to.
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2\$\begingroup\$ Save your money and use PuTTY, no problem so far with virtual serial ports with MikroE, Arduino etc. \$\endgroup\$– zzzCommented Feb 13, 2013 at 19:08
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\$\begingroup\$ I like PuTTY as well, it is my standard program for doing SSH. \$\endgroup\$– tcrosleyCommented Feb 13, 2013 at 21:14