[Hans Peter] wanted to move away from using full Arduino boards in his projects. One of the components he rarely used after the development stage is the USB hardware. Once the firmware is flashed to ...

FTDI Chip has introduced two new board level products and a new IC to support engineers with comprehensive support when implementing USB into their embedded systems. The UMFTPD3A programmer module is ...

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was an AVR microcontroller with USB device support built in so you would not need a separate programmer or serial link? Well in fact there are quite a few of them, and ...

FTDI Chip introduced and demo-ed at Electronica the USB power delivery technology necessary to go beyond the powering of consumer electronics products and support the elevated current levels required ...

12 Mbit/s USB host bridge IC simplifies integration of a USB link into peripheral hardware from any Android platform with a USB device port. A 12 Mbit/s USB host bridge IC from FTDI, the FT312D, ...

Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) has announced its new X-Chip series, consisting of 13 different package options. The series supports a selection of interface types such as UART, full ...

Fujitsu’s 65-nm MB86C30A USB 3.0-SATA Bridge chip looks to bring the full performance of SATA storage to USB. USB 3.0 specs up USB 2.0’s 480-Mbit/s transfer rate to 5-Gbit/s transfer. This translates ...

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