| Ftdi - GNU/Linux talks with FTDI chips |
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| Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:06 |
  A small program to talk to FTDI chips from Intra2net2; ftdi_eeprom and libFTDI. ftdi_eeprom is a tool for creating, uploading, and erasing the configuration EEPROM for a FT232BM/FT245BM FTDI chip. The EEPROM content is generated using a flexible configuration file. libFTDI is a library to talk to FTDI chips (e.g. FT232BM/245BM, FT2232C/D and FT232/245R) using libusb, including the popular bitbang mode. This library is linked with your program in userspace, no kernel driver required. For more information click here. Note; linux kernel 2.4.20 and greater has VCP drivers for FTDI's FT8U232AM, FT8U245AM and FT8U100AX devices built-in to the OS kernel so no downloads are necessary (for more information about this driver click here). A complete list of the product FTDI is here. There are, also, official drivers released from FTDI for GNU/linux; they are Virtual Com Port (VCP) drivers that cause the USB device to appear as an additional COM port available to the PC and D2XX drivers that allow direct access to the USB device. |