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News Archive
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The FTDI news archive pages keeps track of
some historical news items that have been moved from the home page.
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News - 10th December 2008 |
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New Technical Note Available
A new
technical note
has been made available which provides a comparison of FTDI's IC
products to assist customers in selecting the correct IC for their
application. The document is
available from our
Documents section.
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News - 27th November 2008 |
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New Application Note Available
A document describing using a
Vinculum VNC1L to interface to a USB Printer
has been published. The document is
available from our
Application Notes section.
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News - 25th November 2008 |
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New Technical Note Available
A new
technical note
has been made available describing how to add custom VID and PID
combinations to the FTDI Linux VCP driver. The document is
available from our
Documents section.
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News - 11th November 2008 |
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USB-RS232 Cables Available
New
USB-RS232 cables and
USB-RS232 PCBs are now available from
FTDI. These cables have an
FT232R and RS232 level converter housed
in the moulded USB connector with integrated Tx and
Rx LEDs.
Cables are FCC, CE and RoHS
compliant. The USB side of the cable is USB powered and USB 2.0 full
speed compatible. Each cable is 1.8m long and supports a data
transfer rate up to 1 Mbaud.
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DLP Design Competition
DLP Design is
pleased to announce the inaugural
DLP-232PC Design Contest whereby
customers have a chance at winning a 65-inch Hi-Def LCD television or
one of five other prizes. Visit the
Design Contest Page to download the
contest rules and get started!
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News - 30th October 2008 |
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Visit FTDI at Electronica
2008
FTDI will be exhibiting at
Electronica 2008 in Munich, Germany
from 11th November to 14th November. FTDI engineering and sales
staff will be available in Hall A5 at Stand 351 to discuss the complete
FTDI product range.
New Technical Notes Published
Two new technical notes are available for download:
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News - 9th October 2008 |
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D2XX Programmer's Guide
Updated
The D2XX programmer's guide has been updated. The revised
document is available to download now from the
Programming Guides section.
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News - 23rd September 2008 |
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New Application Notes
Available
Three new application notes have been published. These
are:
- AN_103 FTDI Driver Installation for Windows Vista
- AN_104 FTDI Driver Installation for Windows XP
- AN_105 FTDI Device EEPROM Programming Using the Vinculum VNC1L.
These are available for download in the
Application Notes
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News - 19th September 2008 |
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FTDI Distributors at
Exhibitions
Several exhibitions will be attended by FTDI distributors over
the coming weeks. These are:
- October 1st-2nd 2008 -
ESS, NEC, Birmingham, UK
Alpha Micro will be present with FTDI engineering staff. They
will be located at Stand 509, Hall 8.
- October 1st-3rd -
Tekniikka 2008, Jyväskylä Paviljonki,
Finland
ACTE Oy will be present at stand D-123.
- October 7th-12th -
CeBIT, Istanbul, Turkey
Fides (Polar Engineering) will be exhibiting at Booth T11, Hall 3.
Each will be showcasing the FTDI product range of ICs and modules.
FTDI will also have its own stand at
ESC (Embedded System Conference) Boston,
Boston MA, USA on October 28th and 29th
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News - 3rd September 2008 |
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FTDI To Attend IIC Taiwan
2008
FTDI will be attending the
IIC Taiwan 2008 exhibition at the Taipei
World Trade Center, Hall 2 from 9th September to 11th September.
FTDI staff will be available at stand 2C05 to discuss the full range of
ICs and modules available. |
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News - 2nd September 2008 |
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New Technical Notes
Available
Two new technical notes have been made available in the
Documents section.
The first technical note (TN_100) provides guidelines for the use of USB
VIDs and PIDs. The second technical note (TN_102) is concerned
with OEM technical support requirements. |
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News - 20th
August 2008 |
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New Application Notes
Available
Two new application notes have been made available in the
Documents section.
The first application note illustrates the operation of the FT232R and
FT245R devices with an external oscillator, the second provides
information on the Microsoft WHQL driver certification process. |
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News - 4th
August 2008 |
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New Vacancies at FTDI UK
FTDI UK is currently looking to recruit several new members of
staff to support continued growth
Current vacancies include:
- Technical Support Engineer
- Sales
- Marketing
- Senior Digital IC Design Engineer
- Field Applications Engineer
- PCB Engineer
- Purchasing/Logistics Administrator
- Shipping and Distribution
For full job specifications and to
apply, please visit our
employment page.
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News - 25th July 2008 |
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FTD2XX .NET Interface
Available
FTDI has produced a
fully managed .NET wrapper DLL for the
FTD2XX library on the Windows platform. The FTD2XX_NET library can
be added as a reference to any .NET project to provide a simple
interface to the classic D2XX functions.
Sample
code in C# is also available, demonstrating data loopback and
EEPROM reading and writing. The FTD2XX_NET DLL has a companion
file, FTD2XX_NET.XML, which contains the documentation for the
interface. This can be viewed either as Intellisense comments as
the code is written or in the Visual Studio Object Browser.
The .NET wrapper and samples are available on the
C#
projects page. Please note that the
CDM driver
must be installed to use this library.
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Vista Sidebar Gadget Available
A
Vista sidebar gadget to display
available FTDI COM ports is available to download from the utilities
page. The COM port list is updated to reflect changes when devices
have been added or removed. To install the gadget, simply double
click the file.
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News - 15th July 2008 |
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New Product: USB-Key
Available
The FTDI
USB
Key is security device which has a unique identification
number burnt into it during manufacture. This is the
FTDIChip-ID™
number. This
FTDIChip-ID™ number is only readable
over the USB interface making it an ideal “key” for “unlocking”
particular applications.
The USB-Key is compatible with both the
FTDIChipID DLL
and the
SafeGuard-IT ActiveX control.
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Updated Datasheets
The datasheets for the
FT232R and
FT245R devices have been revised to
include updated information on operation at 3.3V. The new
documents are available from the
datasheets section.
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News - 19th June 2008 |
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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.
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News - 2nd June 2008 |
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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.
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News - 29th
May 2008 |
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Forthcoming Exhibition Attendance
FTDI are please to announce their presence at the following events in
2008:
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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News - 8th
May 2008 |
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FTDI To Co-Exhibit at ESEC, Tokyo, Japan
FTDI will be co-exhibiting with Japanese distributor
Daito at the
Embedded Systems Expo(ESEC) show at
the Tokyo Big Sight from May 14th to
May 16th. FTDI staff at the exhibition will be available to
demonstrate the range of ICs and modules available form FTDI, including
the
Vinculum V-Eval evaluation board.
FTDI and
Daito can be
found at Booth East 31-25.
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News - 2nd May 2008 |
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D2XX Driver for Windows CE 6.0 Available
FTDI's D2XX driver is now available for Windows CE 6.0 from our
D2XX Drivers page.
Please note that the driver for Windows CE 6.0 is different to the
driver for Windows CE 4.2 - 5.2.
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News - 15th April 2008 |
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USB to USB Null Modem Cable Available
FTDI are pleased to launch the new
USB to USB Null Modem Cable (p/n: USB
NMC-2.5m) today, at
ESC Silicon Valley San Jose.
Using an approach that was established using legacy RS-232 serial COM
ports when the PC industry was in its infancy, the USB NMC-2.5m offers a
quick and convenient method of inter-PC communication using USB ports.
Together with FTDI’s
Virtual COM port (VCP) drivers, the USB NMC allows the use of
common terminal emulation programs such as HyperTerminal for COM
port-based communication at up to 3M baud.
For more information, please download the
product flyer. Product samples and
pricing are available upon request. Please contact the
FTDI sales
team for more detail information.
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News - 10th April 2008 |
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Visit FTDI at ESC Silicon Valley 2008, San Jose, USA
FTDI will be exhibiting at
ESC Silicon Valley 2008 (Embedded System
Conference Silicon Valley 2008) in San Jose, USA from 15th to 17th of
April. FTDI will be demonstrating the recently released
V-Eval, a complete development platform
for Vinculum embedded USB host designs. In addition, there will be
the official launch of a new product. FTDI invites you to visit us at Booth 2428 where our
sales and engineering staff will be pleased to answer your questions
regarding the full range of products from FTDI.
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News - 20th March 2008 |
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New Microsoft
Certified CDM Driver Available
FTDI are pleased to announce the availability of a new Microsoft WHQL
certified CDM driver.
The latest CDM driver (2.04.06)
has been certified for the following versions of Windows:
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Server 2008 x64
- Windows Vista
- Windows Vista x64
- Windows XP
- Windows XP x64
- Windows
Server 2003
- Windows Server 2003 x64
- Windows 2000
The
driver is available in a
ZIP file or as a
setup
executable for default VID (0x0403) and PIDs (0x6001 and
0x6010).
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News - 3rd March 2008 |
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FTDI
Exhibitions in China
FTDI will be participating in the
13th Annual International IC-China Conference &
Exhibition
from March 3rd to March 11th.
FTDI will have an exhibition stand and
will also hold seminars on the
Vinculum embedded host controller at the
following venues:
V-Eval Board Available
FTDI are pleased to announce the availability of the
V-Eval Vinculum
VNC1L development board. With a large
prototyping area, the V-Eval board provides everything needed to develop
and debug a VNC1L based design. Using the
VEVAL application it's easy to send
commands to the
VNC1L, reprogram the
VNC1L firmware or debug
UART communication by using the "spy" mode which allows analysis of data
sent to and from the
VNC1L UART. The V-Eval is
available now from the
FTDI Chip Shop.
Embedded World Thank You
FTDI would like to extend their thanks to everyone who visited their
stand at the Embedded World exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany. A
photograph of the FTDI stand from the show is available to view
here.
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News - 24th February 2008 |
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Visit FTDI
at Embedded World, Nuremberg
FTDI will be exhibiting at
Embedded World 2008 in Nuremberg,
Germany from 26th to 28th of February. FTDI will be in hall 12,
stand 12-241
where our sales and engineering staff will be pleased to answer your
questions regarding the full range of products from FTDI.
DLP-FPGA Article Published
ECN have published an article on the
DLP-FPGA called
FPGA Module and Labs Jump Starts Designs.
The article is available in the February 2008 issue of
ECN magazine.
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News - 24th January 2008 |
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New DLP
Modules Available
FTDI are pleased to announce the availability of several new modules
from DLP Design. The new modules are:
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