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More information about the FT232 and other USB chips |
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Other
FTDI data
FTDI
makes some other things that might be useful
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- The FT245 chipset
allows you to stream parallel data, and they apparently provide
a DLL for easy driver-writing. Never played with them.
- RS-232 to FT232
converters, you can buy them from Saelig.
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Other
Chips
I
wasn't able to use these chips for various reasons, but they may satisfy
a different project.
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- CP2101
This USB/UART chip from Silicon Labs is quite cool, and even has
a built in oscillator. Unfortunatly, its 10-mil pitch MLP package
made it hazardous to use--much to small for anybody to solder
without a reflow oven.
- TUSB3410
This chip from TI requires a firmware download, or an extra EEPROM
with software. After a bit of struggle getting the firmware to
load from a Win2K box, I decided it wasn't worth it, especially
since it was unlikely it would be easily supported by other OS's.
If you need more intelligence from your adaptor chip, and you're
willing to write the code, this might be right for you
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Other
Boards
There
are a bunch of different DIP boards for interfacing with FT232's &
FT245
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Most all
the boards are listed on FTDI's evalboard
page. Some even have PIC microcontrollers with bootloaders already
on them. A clever idea... |
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