Just over a year ago, FTDI, manufacturers of the most popular USB to serial conversion chip on the market, released an update to their drivers that bricked FTDI clones. Copies of FTDI chips abound in ...

Hardware hackers building interactive gadgets based on the Arduino microcontrollers are finding that a recent driver update that Microsoft deployed over Windows Update has bricked some of their ...

Hardware hackers and security researchers are furious at chip maker FTDI for issuing a silent update that bricks cloned FTDI FT232 [USB to UART] chips. FTDI used a recent Windows update to deliver the ...

The FTDI FT232 chip is found in thousands of electronic baubles, from Arduinos to test equipment, and more than a few bits of consumer electronics. It’s a simple chip, converting USB to a serial port, ...

The primary method here is to visit the FTDI website and search & download the drivers you’re looking for. Here’s how that can be done: Open your web browser and visit the FTDI driver download center ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for FTDI USB Serial Converter Drivers. This is a driver pack that allows USB ports to be used to connect to Serial bus devices with a USB - Serial adapter cable.

We still have lots of things that have serial interfaces on them, switches, mangement modules, etc. But we're all out of things that have serial ports. Even the servers who's management modules have a ...

To provide engineers with a greater breadth of IO options and also address demands to conserve board real estate, FTDI has announced new versions of its highly popular FT2232H and FT4232H devices.

In Part I of this article, I briefly mentioned the generic USB driver in the context of getting a USB device to communicate through it easily, with no custom kernel programming. Unfortunately, I ...

In my last column [see LJ December 2002], we covered the serial layer in the 2.5 (hopefully soon to be 2.6) kernel tree. We mentioned in passing that a USB-to-serial driver layer in the kernel helps ...