FTDI Chips is seeking to further assist engineers using its Embedded Video Engine (EVE) technology, and can now supply a comprehensive suite of additional support facilities. These are designed to be ...

In the Arduino IDE, choose the "Arduino Uno" as your board and select your serial port (if you use an FTDI cable) or your programmer if you're using one. Then click Sketch -> Verify/Compile and File ...

Following on the release of its VM800P development platforms, which facilitate more advanced human machine interface (HMI) implementation, FTDI Chip has introduced a series of accompanying daughter ...

CleO is a touch-enabled display shield from FTDI Chip. With this intelligent, simple-to-program, full color TFT display board, engineers of all experience can develop imaginative and compelling human ...

Vinculo is a dual-channel USB host/device controller targeted at development and prototyping. It is a superset of the Arduino Duemilanove/Uno development platform with two extra rows of header ...

Just over a year ago, FTDI, manufacturers of the most popular USB to serial conversion chip on the market, released an update to their drivers that bricked FTDI clones. Copies of FTDI chips abound … ...

As such, even hardware that was designed and specified as using proper FTDI chips could be affected. Every USB device has a pair of IDs. One, the Vendor ID (VID), is allocated by the USB group.

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.

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 ...

The Arduino – compatible VM800P ‘PLUS boards’ are based on the company’s FT800 EVE graphic controller devices, in which display, audio and touch functionality are all integrated onto a single chip.