When it comes to electronic hobbyists and EEs, there is no company that deserves a few raised eyebrows than FTDI. They made their name with USB converter chips, namely USB to serial chips that are ...

With the electronics encapsulated in the USB connector, these cables provide a quick, easy and completely transparent method of supporting these serial interface standards. With the complete USB ...

It was an interface that launched a thousand hacks. Near trivial to program, enough I/O lines for useful work, and sufficiently fast for a multitude of applications: homebrew logic analyzers, chip ...

Future Technology Devices International (FTDI Chip), the USB interface chip specialist, has signed a global distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics. This agreement, which covers the Americas, ...

Hardware hackers building interactive gadgets based on the Arduino microcontrollers are finding that a recent driver update that Microsoft deployed over Windows Update has bricked some of their ...

FTDI has a USB host controller IC which supports USB 2.0 hi-speed (480Mbit/s), full-speed (12Mbit/s) and low-speed (1.5Mbit/s) implementations. The FT313H device runs off a 3.3V supply, with IO levels ...

The simple project was designed to interface a PIC16F877 microcontroller to the USB bus using the FTDI FT245 USB FIFO device. A single sided PCB with only one surface mount device, pertaining to the ...

USB interfaces are everywhere today, with low cost flash memory drives and all kinds of USB peripherals readily available. But these are very much focused on the PC market. Attempt to make use of ...

I recently found myself with a problem. I'm doing work with some higher speed TTL serial stuff (3M baud), and my FTDI adapters, which should be more than capable of handing this, were being mostly ...