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Connecting and Using USB to Serial converter with Jetson

Connecting the USB to serial converter to a NVIDIA® Jetson™ board.

  1. Connect the serial converter to the Jetson board via USB.

    USB to serial converter connected to a USB port on a Jetson board

  2. To find the corresponding serial port name of the USB to serial converter, run the following command in the terminal of an NVIDIA Jetson board.

    ls /dev/tty*

    Screenshot showing terminal window output of all /dev/tty* devices

    The port name of the USB to serial converter is displayed as /dev/ttyUSB0. If there are multiple USB to serial converters, then there will be multiple entries of port names (ttyUSB1, ttyUSB2...).