FTDI Chip has introduced a USB-based GPS module to provide positioning data for laptops, tablets or an embedded PC. Running off a 5V supply from a USB A port, the module is based on the company’s ...

Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) has introduced multi-port variants of its USB-powered USB-COM-PLUS family of communication modules. Adding to the previously released single port ...

Future Technology Devices International Ltd. (FTDI Chip) will show off two USB 2.0 mini-modules at the Nuremberg Embedded World show in early March. FT2232H mini module (pictured above) offers two ...

When it comes to electronic hobbyists and EEs, there is no company that deserves a few raised eyebrows than FTDI. They made their name with USB converter chips, namely USB to serial chips that are ...

Hardware hackers building interactive gadgets based on the Arduino microcontrollers are finding that a recent driver update that Microsoft deployed over Windows Update has bricked some of their ...

Hardware hackers and security researchers are furious at chip maker FTDI for issuing a silent update that bricks cloned FTDI FT232 [USB to UART] chips. FTDI used a recent Windows update to deliver the ...

It was an interface that launched a thousand hacks. Near trivial to program, enough I/O lines for useful work, and sufficiently fast for a multitude of applications: homebrew logic analyzers, chip ...

A driver update from the Scottish electronics firm FTDI that intentionally “bricked” USB devices with counterfeit FTDI chips has been removed from Windows Update by the firm. The move follows an ...