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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions docs/tutorials/serial/serial_communication.md
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- [Minicom](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Minicom).
- [GNU Screen](https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html).

### Minimal Printf

For low memory devices you may optionally use the [ArmMbed minimal printf library](https://github.com/ARMmbed/minimal-printf).

### Additional examples

Use your terminal application to interact with the following examples.
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<td><a href="serial-comm.html">Board to PC communication over USB tutorial</a></td>
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<td><a href="serial-comm.html#minimal-printf">Low memory serial printf</a></td>
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Query: Does this belong in serial communication, debugging or both?

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Hmmmm, I'd leave it in serial communication. Wouldn't be completely out of place in debugging, but people tend not to care quite as much about ROM size for debugging purposes and this falls under more of an optimization.

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