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Nightmares? They work better than the originals! There's this: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/695292366639378433 https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/6952

Nightmares? They work better than the originals! There's this: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/695292366639378433 https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/695292366639378433 And also, the way FTDI bricked the clones (only) was by exploiting the fact that they also implement the EEPROM write command in the sane way other FTDI chips do, instead of having the write staging quirk of the "genuine" FT232RL that they introduced when they wired the internal 32-bit EEPROM block to a 16-bit interface. So all around, the clones work better than the originals in several ways.

xondono 5y ago
> Nightmares? They work better than the originals! Yeah, nightmares. It doesn’t matter if they’re crap if it’s what you have to work with. I really never understood why the open source world went with FTDI when the CP210X was perfectly available (I’ve been using them for ~12 years now), in fact I found about the FTDI chips later and I was very confused of why would I even pay more for an inferior part. But whatever appears in hobby boards is bound to appear in some products.