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FTDI Chip – the USB Bridging Solutions Specialist
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Adding a USB port to a product has now become almost essential – particularly if that product is required to interface to a PC or laptop. Whilst many economy devices developed with 8-bit micros may not have easy access to an integrated USB device port, there are a number of solutions on the market that overcome this issue.
These solutions often come in the form of a USB bridge device such as those from FTDI Chip’s reknowned FT-X series. These simple function devices offer a bridge between a USB host PC and a variety of standard interfaces found on most embedded MCUs or ASICs such as UART, I2C or FIFO.
The FT-X series has been optimised to provide the ultimate in power, price and packaging performance.
Device FT200XD FT201X FT220X FT221X FT230X FT231X FT234XD FT240X
Description USB to I2C slave interface USB to I2C slave interface USB to 4-Bit SPI / FT1248 interface USB to 4-Bit SPI / FT1248 interface USB to basic UART USB to full handshake UART USB to basic UART USB to parallel FIFO interface
Data Rates 3.4Mbit/s 3.4Mbit/s 500kbyte/s 1MByte/s 3MBaud 3MBaud 3MBaud 1MByte/s
CBUS Pins 1 6 1 1 4 4 1 2
Packages 10-Pin DFN 16-pin QFN 16-pin SSOP 16-pin QFN 16-pin SSOP 20-pin QFN 20-pin SSOP 16-pin QFN 16-pin SSOP 20-pin QFN 20-pin SSOP 12-pin DFN 20-pin QFN 20-pin SSOP
All devices are USB 2.0 full speed compliant and benefit from 512 bytes internal data buffers (RX/TX), 1.8V-3.3V IO, and a typical 8mA operational power consumption
USB TO RS232 Design Example
The simplest and most common use of FTDI Chip devices is for the purpose of bridging USB ports to a UART peripheral interface.
The UART interface may operate at 1.8V to 5V in which case it is possible to realize the design with only one IC such as the FT231X which will handle all the protocol translation on chip.
If the design is connecting to either RS232, RS422, RS485 then the design will require an additional transceiver to convert the FT231X UART signals to the appropriate levels.
TTL UART RS232 RS422 RS485
Signal Swing 0v to 3V3/5V +/-5V to +/-15V +/-2V +/-1.5V
Termination Single Ended Single Ended Differential Differential
Transmission length ~2m ~15m ~1200m ~1200m
No of transmitters /receivers on a line 1 Driver 1 Receiver 1 Driver 1 Receiver 1 Driver 10 Receiver 32 Driver 32 Receiver
It is possible for the design to simply use RXD and TXD signals but with FTDI Chip solutions, the option to implement full modem control is also provided.
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