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  Welcome

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 - 4th June 2009
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.

 

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.

 

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 drivers page.

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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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