Beginner Problem NMIN-0912

[Ganjoo]

I recently ordered NMIN-0912.

Now I am not able to connect to the board using HyperTerminal.

The serial cable I have made has Female connection on one side (goes into Rs-232 on PC) and male connection on the other side which goes into the board. The following are the pin connections:

Male-Pin2 <-> Female-Pin3
Male-Pin3 <-> Female-Pin2
Male-Pin5 <-> Female-Pin5

Rest of the pins have no connections at all.

Now in hyperterminal I have specified the following:

Baud Rate: 9600
Data Bits: 8
Parity: None
Stop Bits: 1
Flow Control: Hardware

But I get nothing back from the board when I press the reset button on the board.

I have checked that the board actually has +5V by connecting a volt meter to power and ground pins on the LCD (J4 Connector).

Regards

Fahad Zubair

[nmitech]

Fahad Zubair,

You just need a straight through serial cable,
pin 2 --> 2
pin 3 --> 3
pin 5 --> 5

and it should work with your Hyper Terminal current setup.