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Welcome
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Welcome to FTDI - specialists in converting
legacy peripherals to Universal Serial Bus (USB). We offer the easiest
route to USB migration by combining USB-Serial (USB-RS232) and USB-FIFO
silicon solutions with our ready-to-go
royalty free USB drivers.
FTDI's "total" solutions offer reduced development and debug costs and a
fast time to market.
Our team of highly qualified and experienced
hardware and software engineers also offer
full
custom IC design services
and a turnkey
product design and manufacturing service
using trusted sub-contract manufacturers in the Asia Pacific
region.
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News - Updated 2nd December
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New Product Announcement - FT232R USB UART and
FT245R USB FIFO FTDI are
proud to announce the release of the latest generation of USB UART and
USB FIFO IC devices, the
FT232R (USB UART) and
FT245R (USB
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The FT232R is a highly integrated device which includes onboard EEPROM,
master clock generator, 3.3V LDO regulator, reset generator and USB
termination resistors. Only two external decoupling capacitors are
required for a minimal configuration. In addition to the full set
of modem control signals, the device features five IO pins which can be
configured in EEPROM to have several functions including providing a
output clock which can be used to drive an external MCU or FPGA.
Each device has a unique number (the
FTDIChip-ID™) burnt into it at
manufacturing time which cannot be altered by the end user. Though
an encryption scheme, this feature can be used by product designers to
protect their application software from being copied.
The
FT232R and
FT245R
are available in green Pb-free (RoHS compliant) compact 28-Lead
SSOP and QFN-32 packages as standard.
The FT232R features a wide range of royalty-free FTDI developed drivers
for 32 and 64 bit operating systems including Windows, CE, Linux and Mac
OS. For more details,
click here.
Preview the FT232R
advertising campaign
here.
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FTDI Opens New USA Branch Office
We are also pleased to announce the opening of a new branch office in
the USA. The branch office is located in Hillsboro, Oregon - in
the thick of the "Silicon Forest" just outside of Portland. Full
contact details for the new office can be found on our Contact page.
Items ordered from the
FTDI Web Shop will now ship direct to
customers in the USA and Canada from our USA branch office.
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FT232R and FT245R Evaluation Modules Now Available
A range of
FT232R based modules and
FT245R based modules are now available.
The range includes USB - Serial converters, DIP modules and a
mini-module a little larger than a USB connector.
These modules allow customers
to quickly evaluate the FT232R and FT245R devices before commencing
their own design and many are suitable for including in low/medium
volume production.
To see the range of FT232R
modules,
click here.
To see the range of FT245R
modules,
click here.
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New Driver Releases
To coincide with the release of the FT232R and FT245R devices, our driver
pages have been improved. Our drivers are now arranged by driver
type, either Virtual COM port (VCP)
or direct D2XX
driver. Although older drivers will provide basic functionality
with the new devices, the latest drivers must be installed to use all of
the new features available.
To view our archived news items, click
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