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 ...

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 ...

A few weeks ago, I was working on a small project of mine, and I faced a rather large problem. I had to program nearly five hundred badges in a week. I needed a small programming adapter that would ...

Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) has introduced USB interface modules which are aimed at the Raspberry Pi (RPi) computing platform. The Raspberry Pi embedded computing platform is ...

Dual- and quad-channel hi-speed USB interface ICs with accompanying hardware from FTDI Chip can be used to upgrade peripheral legacy systems to integrate USB in smart card readers, industrial control ...

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 ...

This backpack device allows an LCD display to connect directly to a computer using a PIC microcontroller to drive the LCD, and a FTDI USB to serial chip to connect to a computer. This backpack device ...

We still have lots of things that have serial interfaces on them, switches, mangement modules, etc. But we're all out of things that have serial ports. Even the servers who's management modules have a ...