Fortunately, there are some layers above the tty layer that help buffer its complexities and provide the developer with a lot of common functions that are needed for a serial driver and that fit the ...

From a software perspective, the manufacturer of the USB-to-UART device will often provide a VCP driver to the developer; therefore, no driver development is required.

According to the company, the single channel usb to UART/FIFO interface device can be configured via EEPROM to use a variety of different serial or parallel interfaces. Bundled with FTDI's usb device ...

FREMONT, Calif. , Aug. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ –Exar Corporation (NYSE: EXAR), a leading supplier of high-performance integrated circuits and system solutions, today announced the introduction of its ...

Arduino enthusiasts searching for an isolated USB to UART converter specifically designed for the Arduino Pro mini may be interested in a new piece of hardware ...

If you want to plug a USB cable into your next project, you’ve got a problem. USB is not UART, and UART is what every microcontroller serial port wants. To add USB to your microcontroller pro… ...

If you haven’t been paying attention, FTDI, makers of one of the most popular USB to UART chips out there, really screwed up last October. They released a driver to Microsoft that would brick ...