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 ...

FTDI is supporting the Android Open Accessories initiative with the introduction of a USB Full Speed (12Mbit/s) host IC designed for Android platforms, such as tablet PCs or smartphones. Google’s ...

Hardware hackers and security researchers are furious at chip maker FTDI for issuing a silent update that bricks cloned FTDI FT232 [USB to UART] chips. FTDI used a recent Windows update to deliver the ...

Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) has announced the release of its FT12 series of USB controller ICs. Operating at 12Mbit/s and designed to the USB 2.0 specification, the controllers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Future Technology Devices International Ltd. (FTDI Chip) will show off two USB 2.0 mini-modules at the Nuremberg Embedded World show in early March. FT2232H mini module (pictured above) offers two ...