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Can somebody give me the background here? What is a FTDI FT232s? It appears to be a fairly low level USB controller chip? Is this chip (or its ilk) in every
by cschneid 12y ago
Can somebody give me the background here? What is a FTDI FT232s?
It appears to be a fairly low level USB controller chip? Is this chip (or its ilk) in every kind of usb device? What is the impact of this?
Most of this article dives in with a fair bit of preexisting knowledge - can somebody fill me in?
- sdrothrock 12y agoIt's a USB-serial chip. The most common device I can think of that it shows up in is USB modems.
- dfox 12y agoFT232 is USB to serial port adapter chip. Typical application of these chips is anything that has to be connected to USB but does not warrant full-featured USB implementation. This includes various interface cables and converters, (low-cost or specialized) test and measurement equipment and large amounts of various (semi-)custom electronics (both hobbyist and industrial). In essence, FTDI's chips are the go to solution for adding USB support when you don't want to spend too much time on it. I would argue that today there are better and cheaper alternatives, but FTDI was probably the first vendor of such chips with reasonable documentation and software support.