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Native TTY UART

Overview

This sample demonstrates the usage of the Native TTY UART driver. It uses two UART to USB bridge dongles that are wired together, writing demo data to one dongle and reading it from the other.”

The source code for this sample application can be found at: samples/drivers/uart/native_tty.

You can learn more about the Native TTY UART driver in the TTY UART section of the native_sim board documentation.

Requirements

  1. Two UART to USB bridge dongles. Each dongle must have its TX pin wired to the other dongle’s RX pin. The ground connection is not needed. Both dongles must be plugged into the host machine.

  2. The DT overlay provided with the sample expects the dongles to appear as /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 in the system. You can check what they are in your system by running the command ls -l /dev/tty*. If that is not the case on your machine you can either change the serial-port properties in the boards/native_sim.overlay file or using the command line options -uart_port and -uart_port2.

Building and Running

This application can be built and executed on native_sim as follows:

west build -b native_sim samples/drivers/uart/native_tty
west build -t run

Sample Output

uart_1 connected to pseudotty: /dev/pts/6
uart2 connected to the serial port: /dev/ttyUSB1
uart connected to the serial port: /dev/ttyUSB0
*** Booting Zephyr OS build v3.4.0-rc2-97-ge586d02c137d ***
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 9"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 9"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 8"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 8"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 7"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 7"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 6"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 6"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 5"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 5"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 4"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 4"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 3"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 3"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 2"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 2"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 1"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 1"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 0"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 0"

Changing baudrate of both uart devices to 9600!

Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 9"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 9"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 8"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 8"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 7"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 7"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 6"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 6"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 5"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 5"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 4"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 4"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 3"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 3"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 2"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 2"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 1"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 1"
Device uart sent: "Hello from device uart, num 0"
Device uart2 received: "Hello from device uart, num 0"