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  News Archive

The FTDI news archive pages keeps track of some historical news items that have been moved from the home page. 

 

  News - 8th May 2008

FTDI To Co-Exhibit at ESEC, Tokyo, Japan
FTDI will be co-exhibiting with Japanese distributor Daito at the
Embedded Systems Expo(ESEC) show at the Tokyo Big Sight from May 14th to May 16th.  FTDI staff at the exhibition will be available to demonstrate the range of ICs and modules available form FTDI, including the Vinculum V-Eval evaluation board.  FTDI and Daito can be found at Booth East 31-25.

 

  News - 2nd May 2008

D2XX Driver for Windows CE 6.0 Available
FTDI's D2XX driver is now available for Windows CE 6.0 from our D2XX Drivers page.  Please note that the driver for Windows CE 6.0 is different to the driver for Windows CE 4.2 - 5.2
.

 

  News - 15th April 2008

USB to USB Null Modem Cable Available
FTDI are pleased to launch the new USB to USB Null Modem Cable (p/n: USB NMC-2.5m) today, at ESC Silicon Valley San Jose.

Using an approach that was established using legacy RS-232 serial COM ports when the PC industry was in its infancy, the USB NMC-2.5m offers a quick and convenient method of inter-PC communication using USB ports.  Together with FTDI’s Virtual COM port (VCP) drivers, the USB NMC allows the use of common terminal emulation programs such as HyperTerminal for COM port-based communication at up to 3M baud.

For more information, please download the product flyer. Product samples and pricing are available upon request.  Please contact the FTDI sales team for more detail information.

 

  News - 10th April 2008

Visit FTDI at ESC Silicon Valley 2008, San Jose, USA
FTDI will be exhibiting at ESC Silicon Valley 2008 (Embedded System Conference Silicon Valley 2008) in San Jose, USA from 15th to 17th of April.  FTDI will be demonstrating the recently released V-Eval, a complete development platform for Vinculum embedded USB host designs.  In addition, there will be the official launch of a new product.  FTDI invites you to visit us at Booth 2428 where our sales and engineering staff will be pleased to answer your questions regarding the full range of products from FTDI.

 

  News - 20th March 2008

New Microsoft Certified CDM Driver Available
FTDI are pleased to announce the availability of a new Microsoft WHQL certified CDM driver.  The latest CDM driver (2.04.06) has been certified for the following versions of Windows:

  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows Server 2008 x64
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows Vista x64
  • Windows XP
  • Windows XP x64
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows Server 2003 x64
  • Windows 2000

The driver is available in a ZIP file or as a setup executable for default VID (0x0403) and PIDs (0x6001 and 0x6010). 

 

 

  News - 3rd March 2008

FTDI Exhibitions in China
FTDI will be participating in the
13th Annual International IC-China Conference & Exhibition from March 3rd to March 11th.  FTDI will have an exhibition stand and will also hold seminars on the Vinculum embedded host controller at the following venues:

  • Shenzhen
  • March 3-4, 2008
  • Booth No.: 2P33
  • Vendor seminar: 3:40pm - 4:30pm, March 3rd

  • Beijing
  • March 6-7, 2008
  • Booth No.: G5
  • Vendor seminar: 2:40pm - 3:30pm, March 6th

  • Shanghai
  • March 10-11, 2008
  • Booth No.: 4K06
  • Vendor seminar: 3:40pm - 4:30pm, March 10th

 

V-Eval Board Available
FTDI are pleased to announce the availability of the V-Eval Vinculum VNC1L development board.  With a large prototyping area, the V-Eval board provides everything needed to develop and debug a VNC1L based design.  Using the VEVAL application it's easy to send commands to the VNC1L, reprogram the VNC1L firmware or debug UART communication by using the "spy" mode which allows analysis of data sent to and from the VNC1L UART.  The V-Eval is available now from the FTDI Chip Shop.

 

Embedded World Thank You
FTDI would like to extend their thanks to everyone who visited their stand at the Embedded World exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany.  A photograph of the FTDI stand from the show is available to view here.

 

 

  News - 24th February 2008

Visit FTDI at Embedded World, Nuremberg
FTDI will be exhibiting at Embedded World 2008 in Nuremberg, Germany from 26th to 28th of February.  FTDI will be in hall 12, stand
12-241 where our sales and engineering staff will be pleased to answer your questions regarding the full range of products from FTDI. 

 

DLP-FPGA Article Published
ECN have published an article on the DLP-FPGA called
FPGA Module and Labs Jump Starts Designs.  The article is available in the February 2008 issue of ECN magazine.

 

  News - 24th January 2008

New DLP Modules Available
FTDI are pleased to announce the availability of several new modules from DLP Design.  The new modules are:

 

 

   



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