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. |



A small program to talk to FTDI chips from