08.03.2011

FTDI Releases FT232H, Single Channel Hi-Speed USB to UART/FIFO Interface IC

Supported by UM232H – FT232H Development Module

FTDI, available through GLYN High-Tech Distribution, announced the release of the FT232H USB2.0 Hi-Speed IC, thereby strengthening its portfolio of USB Hi-Speed interface chips. This versatile single channel USB to UART/FIFO interface can be configured via EEPROM into a variety of different serial or parallel interfaces. Bundled with FTDI's USB device drivers, it enables engineers to easily add Hi-Speed USB connectivity into new and legacy peripheral designs with the minimum of effort. This highly integrated USB device contains USB, serial and parallel protocol engines, eliminating any requirement for USB specific firmware development. The UM232H evaluation module that accompanies it, allows rapid prototyping and testing of the FT232H’s suitability for incorporation into new system designs.

As well as supporting asynchronous serial (UART) interfacing, the FT232H can be configured to interface to synchronous IOs (such as SPI, I2C, JTAG, and FPGA programming interfaces) via its inbuilt Multi-Protocol Synchronous Serial Engine (MPSSE), which is capable of communication speeds of up to 30Mbits/s. It can also be utilised by design engineers to implement their own customised synchronous serial bus protocols. The FT232H’s newly developed FT1248 bus is a proprietary, half-duplex, synchronous serial/parallel interface option capable of communicating with external logic at up to 30Mbytes/s. It can trade off bandwidth against the number of physical data lines (one, two, four or eight) available to connect the FT232H to external logic, thus providing optimum flexibility to the system designer.

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