This doesn’t hold true to the newest generation of Arduino, as those board have replaced the FTDI chip with an ATmega8U2. That’s basically and ATmega8 with native USB handling… fancy.

Arduino-UNO-PCB-Design This repository contains full PCB design of Arduino UNO. This design was done completely from scrath, starting with selecting components from digikey, creating schematic symbols ...

The number on the PD05 pin in the schematic is referring to the physical pin number on the chip. The physical pin number has no relation to the Arduino pin number. So the schematic is correct. There ...

The Arduino UNO and Arduino Mega 2560 update the Duemilanove and Mega respectively. They now use an ATMega8U2 instead of an FTDI USB to serial converter chip.

FTDI Chip has launched a Kickstarter project called NerO to deal with drawbacks it perceives in the widely-used Arduino UNO R3 and, by utilising a crowdfunding platform, get the engineering community ...

Called VM800P, each incorporates the firm’s FT800 EVE graphic controller chip alongside a 16MHz Atmel ATMEGA328P microcontroller and a touch-enabled LCD “replete with fitted bezels that help to ensure ...