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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 - 11th November 2009 |
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CDM
Uninstaller utility released
CDM Uninstaller is a free application that can selectively remove
Windows device drivers from the user’s system as specified by the device
Vendor ID and Product ID.
Full details can be found on our
Utilities page.
Download CDM Uninstaller (command line version)
Download CDM
Uninstaller (GUI executable version)
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New FTDI
Documents available
We have recently added some new
documents to our Application Notes
and Technical Notes
areas.
New Application Notes:
AN_120 -
Aliasing VCP Baud Rates
AN_132 -
Re-Assigning COM Port Numbers Using the Windows Registry
AN_133 -
D2XX Access Using PERL Interface PERL 5.0 Programmers Guide
AN_134 -
FTDI Drivers Installation guide for MAC OSX
New Technical Note:
TN_116 - USB Data Packet Structure
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Windows 7 compatible D2XX/VCP drivers available
New versions of our
D2XX and VCP drivers have now been
released, which include compatibility for Windows 7. Please visit our
Drivers pages
for further information, or click below for direct download.
D2XX and VCP
Driver (ver.2.06.00)
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We are pleased to announce the release
of several new FTDI documents:
PCB Data
A new PCB Data page
has been added to our Documents area,
this contains PCB design
information for FTDI ICs. Click
here to view PCB Data.
New Application Notes
AN_114
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Interfacing FT2232H Hi-Speed Devices To SPI Bus
AN_119
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FTDI Drivers Installation guide for Windows 7
AN_126 -
User Guide For FT232B/R Factory Test Utility
AN_127 -
User Guide For FT2232H/D Factory Test Utility
AN_128 -
User Guide For FT4232H Factory Test Utility
AN_129 -
Interfacing FT2232H Hi-Speed Devices to a JTAG TAP
AN_130
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FT2232H Used In An FT245 Style Synchronous FIFO Mode
AN_131
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FT2232D/H Fast Opto-Isolated Serial Interface Mode
The factory test utilities detailed in
AN_126, AN_127 and AN_128 can be
downloaded from our Utilities page
here.
Example code for AN_114 can be downloaded from our MPSSE Projects
page here.
New Technical Notes
TN_113 -
Simplified Description of USB Device Enumeration
TTN_114 -
USB Device Testing and Marking
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Product Announcement: USB powered Hi-Speed 2.0 USB to single/dual-port RS232, RS422 or RS485 modules
Future Technology Devices International (FTDI)
announces its USB-COM-PLUS family of multi-port serial
to USB 2.0 Hi-Speed interface modules. The USB-COM-PLUS
modules are a simple method of adapting legacy serial
devices with RS232 (EIA-232), RS422 (EIA-422) or RS485
(EIA-485) interfaces to a USB host. The complete USB
protocol and all level shifting is handled by the modules.
Royalty-free drivers are available for all popular operating
system platforms for an easy plug and play installation.
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Win a brand new fourth generation iPod nano, featuring 8GB (2000 songs / 8 hours of video) with FM radio and video camera and a iTunes Gift Card worth £15 to download your own music.
Simply complete FTDI's customer survey to participate in our iPod free prize draw. The survey will be only take about 3 minutes. Please enter your e-mail details to participate in the prize draw.
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Many thanks and good luck!
Click
here to complete the survey and for full details.
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FTDI announces a new FT_PROG utility
FT_PROG provides a user
interface to access any EEPROM used with FTDI devices, replacing the
previous utility for this purpose,
MPROG. FT_PROG adds new functionality such as the capability to program Vinculum VNC1L devices,
and a command line interface.
Click
here to download the
FT_PROG utility.
Users should refer to the
Readme file and
User
Guide for further information.
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard drivers now available
Our Virtual Com Port drivers for Mac OS X have been updated
to include compatibility for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Please visit our
VCP Drivers page
for further information, or click
here to download.
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USB 2.0 Hi-Speed interface ICs and evaluation modules are now available in FTDI’s web shop.
FTDI’s latest USB 2.0 Hi-Speed ICs FT2232H
(dual USB to multipurpose UART/ FIFO IC) and
FT4232H
(quad USB to multipurpose UART/ MPSSE IC) are now available in our
web shop.
Both Hi-Speed ICs provide a flexible interface configuration by using Multi-Protocol Synchronous Serial Engines
(MPSSE), to configure I2C, SPI, JTAG or other clocked serial interfaces. Capable of speeds up 30Mbits/s, the entire USB protocol is handled on the IC.
The FT2232H and FT4232H ICs are supported by the USB 2.0 evaluation modules
FT2232H and FT4232H Hi-Speed Mini-Modules which enables an easy migration of Hi-Speed USB to your target design.
Free support and drivers are offered for most industry standard operating systems such as Windows, Linux and MAC OSX.
Also now in stock is the new
DLP-USB1232H Hi-Speed single channel adapter module.. It is DLP Design’s premier USB-to-UART/FIFO interface module based on FTDI’s new FT2232H USB 2.0 Hi-Speed (480Mb/s) silicon. The DLP-USB1232H is available in a lead-free, RoHS-compliant, compact 18-pin, 0.1-inch spaced standard DIP footprint.
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FTDI To Exhibit at/span>
ESC Farnborough,
UK
FTDI would like to invite you to visit our stand 330 at the
ESC Farnborough,
at the
FIVE International Show Centre
from the
7th
– 8th October 2009.
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New Distribution Agreement – Transfer Multisort Electronik sp. Zoo. (TME)
FTDI has signed a distribution agreement with the Polish based catalogue company
Transfer Multisort Electronik sp. Zoo.
FTDI products are now available from TME throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Contact details can be found on FTDI’s
Sales Network page.
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FTDI To
Exhibit at ESC Boston, US
FTDI would like to invite you to visit our stand 621 at the
ESC Boston,
at the Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA, USA from the
22nd – 24th
September 2009.
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New Distribution Agreement – Glyn and Electrocomp
FTDI are pleased to announce new distribution agreements with Glyn GmbH & Co.KG and Electrocomp (PTY) Ltd.
Glyn have expanded their existing FTDI sales regions to include the following
European countries: (Germany, Austria, Benelux, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland).
Electrocomp will join MB Silicon as official distributor of FTDI products in South Africa.
All contact details can be found on FTDI’s
Sales Network page.
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FTDI to exhibit at National Electronics Week 2009
FTDI will be exhibiting at Electronics Weekly live 2009 which is part of the National Electronics Week, where we will showcase our recently launched range of USB 2.0 Hi-Speed devices and development modules at
stand G44 from the 16th - 18th June 2009 at
Earls Court 2, London.
FTDI would like to welcome you to USB IN THE FAST
LANE
workshop as part of the design conference, which is running alongside
the National Electronics Week. FTDI will present
USB IN THE FAST LANE on
Tuesday 16th June 2009 at 12.30pm at the Electronics
Weekly Live event.
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FTDI to exhibit at FTDI to exhibit at ASEE Annual Conference
& Exposition 2009
FTDI will present their recent launched USB 2.0 Hi-Speed devices and modules at booth 211, at the
Austin Convention Center from the 15th - 17th June 2009, in
Austin, TX, USA. FTDI sales and engineering staff present at the stand will be able to assist with any enquiries.
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FT2232H/ FT4232H USB 2.0 High Speed interface ICs and evaluation modules
FT2232H - Dual USB to multipurpose UART/ FIFO IC (4k buffers).
FT4232H - Quad USB to multipurpose UART/ MPSSE IC (2k buffers).
Flexible interface configurations using Multi-Protocol Synchronous Serial Engines
(MPSSE), USB to I2C, SPI, JTAG or other clocked serial interfaces.
Speeds up to 30Mbits/s, entire USB protocol on IC integrated LDO regulator and PLL, extended temperature (-40ºC to +85º).
The FT2232H Hi-Speed Mini-Module and the
FT4232H Mini-Module use these new ICs. Each module has one Hi-Speed
IC with a USB mini connector and two 26 way (2 rows 0.1” pitch) male header pins to allow access to all pins
of the devices. They are ideal for development proposes to quickly prove the concept of adding Hi-Speed USB
to a target design.
Free driver support is offered for most industry standard operating systems such as Windows, Linux and MAC OSX.
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Microsoft WHQL Certified Driver
Released
FTDI are pleased to announce the availability of a
Microsoft WHQL certified driver to
support the new
FT2232H
and
FT4232H hi-speed devices. The
driver is compatible with all current versions of Windows (2000, XP,
Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008), for both 32-bit
and 64-bit operating systems and supports the full range of FTDI ICs
(FT2232H, FT4232H, FT232R, FT245R, FT2232, FT232BM, FT245BM, FT8U232AM,
FT8U245AM).
CDM driver version 2.04.16 is available
as a free download from our
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FTDI To Exhibit at IIC China
Please feel free to visit our
sales and engineering team our stands at
IIC China. They will be pleased to
introduce you to FTDI's new product portfolio.
- Shenzhen - 26th Feb - 27th Feb 2009
- Beijing - 5th March -
6th March 2009
- Shanghai - 9th March - 10th March 2009
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FTDI To Exhibit at Embedded World 2009
FTDI are pleased to announce that they will be exhibiting at
Embedded
World 2009
in Nuremberg, Germany from 3rd - 5th March 2009. FTDI sales and
engineering staff present at the stand (Hall 12 Stand 442) will be able
to assist with any enquiries.
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FTDI To Exhibit at ESC-Silicon Valley
FTDI would like to invite you to visit our
stand 1729 in the Main Hall at the
ESC Silicon Valley, in San Jose, USA
from the 30th March - 4th April 2009.
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New Vacancies at FTDI UK
FTDI have two new engineering vacancies at their UK office.
To view full job descriptions and apply on-line, visit our
employment page.
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New Documents Available
Several new documents have been made available in the documents section
of this site, including
data sheets for the FT2232H and FT4232H,
application notes
for using the hi-speed MPSSE DLLs and a
technical
note detailing how to add support for a custom VID and PID
combination to the Mac OS X VCP driver.
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FTDI Opens New Branch Office in China
FTDI are pleased to announce the opening of a new branch office
in ShangHai, China. The new office will be handling sales and
technical support enquiries. The contact details for FTDI China
are:
Future Technology Devices International Limited
(China)
Room 408, 317 Xianxia Road,
ChangNing District,
ShangHai, P.R. China
Tel: +86 (21) 62351596
Fax: +86 (21) 62351595
E-Mail (Sales)
cn.sales@ftdichip.com
E-mail (Support)
cn.support@ftdichip.com
E-Mail (General Enquiries)
cn.admin@ftdichip.com
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