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 ...

It’s a significant update. 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 ...

An FTDI Chip FT810 embedded video engine (EVE) IC powers the HMI operation, while a low-power, 3.1 DMIPs/MHz FT903 Super-Bridge microcontroller offers access to an Arduino Uno over SPI and a central ...

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 ...