| ??? 06/07/10 10:30 Modified: 06/07/10 10:33 Read: times |
#176467 - I use those too... Responding to: ???'s previous message |
I use the FTDI cables too. Get them off the shelf web order from Mouser. I've included them for use on a series of prototypes and firmware development boards. Have also deployed these in the 100's into several testing adapters that were used on the last generation of servers that I helped develop at Intel. The only short coming I've had with these cables was the one time I wished I had two more handshake lines than the RTS/CTS offered in the 1x6 connector of these cables.
The 3.3V cable at Mouser The 5V cable at Mouser I routinely recommend these to folks that want to interface one or two "TTL" signal lines up to their computer and into Visual Basic in lieu of the formerly ubiquitous parallel port. Virtual serial port drivers for the TTL232R cables are easy to interface to VB6 or VB.NET whereas the parallel port access, even if you still have the port available, became unavailable in Windows from XP onwards. For discrete single I/O input and output use the RTS and CTS signals. Michael Karas |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Save time assembling prototype | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Step Further | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Instead of RS232... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I use those too... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| For discrete single I/O input and output | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Special Driver.... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Instead of 3x5pin headers | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| At least one LED and an EEPROM too | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| FTDI tools | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE: a quite bizarre module | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Absolutely Clever.... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Status Led and Control Button | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| why? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Physical touch/looking | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| No exra functionality | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Picture of back of daughterboard | 01/01/70 00:00 |