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 ...

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 ...

To provide engineers with a greater breadth of IO options and also address demands to conserve board real estate, FTDI has announced new versions of its highly popular FT2232H and FT4232H devices.

FTDI Chip has introduced two new board level products and a new IC to support engineers with comprehensive support when implementing USB into their embedded systems. The UMFTPD3A programmer module is ...

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In my last column [see LJ December 2002], we covered the serial layer in the 2.5 (hopefully soon to be 2.6) kernel tree. We mentioned in passing that a USB-to-serial driver layer in the kernel helps ...

Four USB-to-serial bridge chip solutions include the CP2104 USB-to-UART, CP2105 USB-to-dual-UART, CP2110 HID-USB-to-UART, and the CP2112 HID-USB-to-SMBus/I2 C bridge. The Human Interface Device (HID) ...

Since you lacked the USB interface in your own Arduino board, it becomes necessary to use a homemade/ready-made USB to Serial Converter Module as an efficient and economical solution. Inexpensive and ...

In Part I of this article, I briefly mentioned the generic USB driver in the context of getting a USB device to communicate through it easily, with no custom kernel programming. Unfortunately, I ...