The FTDI Chip USB to UART development board is a miniature kit that uses FTDI’s FT232RQ, which is the latest device to be added to FTDI’s range of USB UART interface integrated circuit devices. It is a USB to serial UART interface with optional clock generator output and with asynchronous and synchronous bit bang interface modes. The USB to serial interface designs uses the FT232RQ and have been further simplified by fully integrating the external EEPROM, clock circuit and USB resistors onto the device. Also, there is a unique number burnt into the device during manufacture and is readable over USB. This forms the basis of a security dongle, which can be used to protect customer application software from being copied.

Entire USB protocol handled on the chip that is no USB-specific firmware programming required
Fully assisted hardware or X-On/X-Off software handshaking
Data transfer rates from 300 baud to 1Mbaud
In-built support for event characters and line break condition
Configurable CBUS I/O pins
Auto transmit buffer control for RS485 applications
Transmit and receive LED drive signals
New 48MHz, 24MHz, 12MHz and 6MHz clock output signal options for driving external MCU or FPGA
Receive and transmit buffers for high data throughput
Adjustable receive buffer timeout
Synchronous and asynchronous bit bang mode interface options with RD# and WR#
New CBUS bit bang mode option
Support for USB suspend and resume
Integrated 1024-bit internal EEPROM for storing USB VID, PID, serial number and product description strings, and CBUS I/O configuration
Support for bus powered, self powered and high power bus powered USB configurations
Integrated 3.3V level converter for USB I/O
High I/O pin output drive option
Integrated USB resistors
Integrated power-on-reset circuit
UART signal inversion option
USB bulk transfer mode.Single supply operating voltage ranges between 3.3V and 5.25V
Operating temperature ranges between -40°C and 85°C
Pb-free

USB to RS232/RS422/RS485 converters
Upgrading legacy peripherals to USB
Cellular and cordless phone USB data transfer cables and interfaces
Interfacing MCU/PLD/FPGA based designs to USB
USB audio and low bandwidth video data transfer
PDA to USB data transfer
USB smart card readers
USB instrumentation
USB industrial control
USB MP3 player interface
USB flash card reader/writers
Set top box PC - USB interface
USB digital camera interface
USB hardware modems
USB wireless modems
USB bar code readers
USB software/hardware encryption dongles
USB medical field

ANSI/ESD S20.20:2014
BS EN 61340-5-1:2007