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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 - 20th August 2008

New Application Notes Available
Two new application notes have been made available in the Documents section.  The first application note illustrates the operation of the FT232R and FT245R devices with an external oscillator, the second provides information on the Microsoft WHQL driver certification process.

 

New Vacancies at FTDI UK
FTDI UK is currently looking to recruit several new members of staff to support continued growth
Current vacancies include:

  • Technical Support Engineer
  • Sales
  • Marketing
  • Senior Digital IC Design Engineer
  • Field Applications Engineer
  • PCB Engineer

For full job specifications and to apply, please visit our employment page.

 

FTD2XX .NET Interface Available
FTDI has produced a fully managed .NET wrapper DLL for the FTD2XX library on the Windows platform.  The FTD2XX_NET library can be added as a reference to any .NET project to provide a simple interface to the classic D2XX functions. 

Sample code in C# is also available, demonstrating data loopback and EEPROM reading and writing.  The FTD2XX_NET DLL has a companion file, FTD2XX_NET.XML, which contains the documentation for the interface.  This can be viewed either as Intellisense comments as the code is written or in the Visual Studio Object Browser.

The .NET wrapper and samples are available on the C# projects page.  Please note that the CDM driver must be installed to use this library.

 

Vista Sidebar Gadget Available
A Vista sidebar gadget to display available FTDI COM ports is available to download from the utilities page.  The COM port list is updated to reflect changes when devices have been added or removed.  To install the gadget, simply double click the file.

 

New Product: USB-Key Available
The FTDI USB Key is security device which has a unique identification number burnt into it during manufacture.  This is the FTDIChip-ID™ number.  This FTDIChip-ID™ number is only readable over the USB interface making it an ideal “key” for “unlocking” particular applications.

The USB-Key is compatible with both the FTDIChipID DLL and the SafeGuard-IT ActiveX control.

 

Updated Datasheets
The datasheets for the FT232R and FT245R devices have been revised to include updated information on operation at 3.3V.  The new documents are available from the datasheets section.

 

FTDI Attending ASEE Conference
FTDI will be attending the
ASEE (America Society in Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition, David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA from June 23rd-25th.  FTDI staff will be available at Stand 439 to answer your questions on the FTDI product range.

 

Windows CE 6.0 VCP Driver Available
FTDI are please to announce the availability of a VCP driver for Windows CE 6.0.  The driver can be downloaded from the VCP drivers page.  Please note that the driver for Windows CE 6.0 is different to the driver for Windows CE 4.2 - 5.2
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Forthcoming Exhibition Attendance
FTDI are please to announce their presence at the following events in 2008:

FTDI PFOS Statement
FTDI have released a statement to certify the non-use of perfluorooctane sulfonates (PFOS) in all current and future ICs.  The statement confirms that no more than the regulation amount of 1000ppm will be present in FTDI devices.  The statement is available as a PDF document on the materials content documents page.

 

 

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