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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FTDI Attending ASEE Conference
FTDI will be attending the ASEE (America Society in Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition, David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA from June 23rd-25th.  FTDI staff will be available at Stand 439 to answer your questions on the FTDI product range.

Windows CE 6.0 VCP Driver Available
FTDI are please to announce the availability of a VCP driver for Windows CE 6.0.  The driver can be downloaded from the VCP drivers page.  Please note that the driver for Windows CE 6.0 is different to the driver for Windows CE 4.2 - 5.2.

Forthcoming Exhibition Attendance
FTDI are please to announce their presence at the following events in 2008:

• June 23rd-25th - ASEE (America Society in Engineering Education) Annual Conference and Exposition, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• September 9th-11th - IIC-Taiwan (International IC-Taiwan) Conference and Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
• October 28th-29th - ESC (Embedded System Conference) Boston, Boston MA, USA
• November 11th-14th - Electronica 2008, Munich, Germany

FTDI PFOS Statement
FTDI have released a statement to certify the non-use of perfluorooctane sulfonates (PFOS) in all current and future ICs.  The statement confirms that no more than the regulation amount of 1000ppm will be present in FTDI devices.  The statement is available as a PDF document on the materials content documents page.

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