Electronics Weekly

FTDI chip eases industrial hi-speed USB upgrades

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 ...
EDN

FTDI Chip will show USB 2.0 to UART module at Embedded World

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 ...
Electronics Weekly

FTDI Chip adds to support for USB implementation

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 ...
Ars Technica

FTDI on counterfeit chip bricking: “Our intentions were honorable”

A driver update from the Scottish electronics firm FTDI that intentionally “bricked” USB devices with counterfeit FTDI chips has been removed from Windows Update by the firm. The move follows an ...
Hackaday

New Part Day: The Fifty Cent USB Chip

If you want to plug a USB cable into your next project, you’ve got a problem. USB is not UART, and UART is what every microcontroller serial port wants. To add USB to your microcontroller project, you ...
New Electronics

Embedded World: Altium, FTDI Chip collaborate on new board level components

Altium has announced the full range of board level IC components from Future Technology Devices International Chip is available for its electronics design software Altium Designer. Electronics ...
Hackaday

Using An Arduino Or Seeeduino For Its FTDI Chip

We think of the Arduino as a rapid prototyping tool but we never thought of it as an FTDI breakout board before. [Ihsan Kehribar] wrote a quick post to show how it’s done. You’ll find an FTDI chip on ...
Embedded

Mouser receives distribution accolade from FTDI Chip

USB connectivity IC manufacturer FTDI Chip has bestowed this year’s global distribution award on Mouser Electronics for being the global distributor with the most significant sales revenue growth in ...
Ars Technica

Windows Update drivers bricking USB serial chips beloved of hardware hackers

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 ...
Electronic Design

IO-Packed and Power Efficient USB 2.0 to SPI/I2C Bridge Chip

The FT4222H from FTDI Chip is the latest addition to its expansive USB offering. Compliant with the USB 2.0 hi-speed standard, this is a feature-rich single chip bridging solution with I²C and ...
Electronic Design

Dedicated USB-to-UART Bridge Chip Optimized for Android

12 Mbit/s USB host bridge IC simplifies integration of a USB link into peripheral hardware from any Android platform with a USB device port. A 12 Mbit/s USB host bridge IC from FTDI, the FT312D, ...