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Future Technology Devices International, commonly known by its acronym FTDI, is a semiconductor device company, specializing in Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology and converters from USB to other (UART, I²C, SPI etc.) communication buses.

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Reading USB with ioctl fails for "value too large for defined data type"

I am trying to read USB using with an ioctl and USBDEVFS_BULK (in native on Android). The USB cable I am using contains an FTDI chip and sends data over from an Arduino UNO, which writes Serial. The write on Android seems to always succeed but the…
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open command sets RTS and DTR by default

I connect via FTDI to an STM32 via my own application written on Ubuntu 14.04.1. I figured out one problem with simply opening the tty like: /* Open File Descriptor */ int fd = open( "/dev/ttyUSB0", O_RDWR| O_NONBLOCK | O_NDELAY ); The problem here…
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Android USB bulkTransfer missing data

I'm using the USB host abilities of Android to communicate with my hardware. My communication is done through a CP210X usb to serial chip, and I'm using the driver provided here. My device is a Motorola Xoom running Android 4.0.3. Everything for the…
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Android - USB communication with FTDI chip and d2xx driver

I am developing an android (Android 4.2) project in which I read data from devices connected through usb. On the connected sensor board I have an FTDI chipset, so I am using their d2xx drivers. Everything works fine to begin with: I am able to…
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Compile FTDI kernel module

I'm trying to add the usb to serial port driver to my arch linux arm device, and I noticed that the kernel source tree already includes the source files for the FTDI driver, located in: drivers/usb/serial, there exists the ftdi_sio.c and ftdi_sio.h…
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getting started with Thorlabs APT

I'm hoping someone else out there has experience programming an APT - DC Servo controller. My client wants a custom solution, so using the ActiveX control isn't viable. I think once I can figure out how to send a basic message, I will be able to…
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Initializing Xbee S1 by an Arduino mini pro

I am trying to configurate my XBee module by an Arduino pro mini that is connected to my computer by de FTDI basic from sparkfun. I already can write and send data from the Xbee to another Xbee module by the Arduino. My problem is that I want to…
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How can I use ftd2xx.lib with a C++ program?

I am having trouble making a program to interact with an FTDI chip. I don't know how much information I can give in regards to the model number of the chip. I am trying to use the API FTDI provides to communicate with the chip I have. I am using Qt…
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FTDI D2XX library works with Ubuntu, but shows error on ezsdk cross compilation

I want to write a program to read from an FTDI device using the D2XX library in ezsdk 6.0 BeagleBoard. I use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) for compilation. I downloaded libftd2xx1.1.12.tar.gz from http://www.ftdichip.com Unpacked the…
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Thermal Printer - Laptop via FTDI Basic Board and C#

I'm attempting to set up a link between my laptop a thermal printer (bought from Sparkfun) through an FTDI Basic board using C# (running Mono 3.2 under Mac 10.8). I've been using a .net library from:…
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Is it possible to Mock an FTDI USB device?

I need to write an FTDI application in C# to interact with a specialised piece of hardware located at another site. When using the FTD2XX_NET.dllwrapper for the C# application, I receive: Failed to load FTD2XX.DLL. Are the FTDI drivers…
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Is there any way how to hard reset FTDI chip using libftdi or libusb?

I need to reset FT2232H in order to regain MPSSE output after switching into FT245 SYNC FIFO, but using ftdi_usb_reset() (on both channel A and channel B) I cannot get back into MPSSE after FT245 was enabled and only way to regain access to MPSSE is…
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How to use FDTI chip in VCP mode?

I'm trying to get a SainSmart USB relay board based on the FT245RL chip working and having a terrible time. I was under the impression that I could control the relays from the command line with something like: echo -e -n "\xFF\x1\x1" >…
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Opening an FTDI device based on bus location ID

I have a few FTDI devices connected to my Mac. They all have the same description, PID, and VID. I want to be able to specify to FT_OpenEx() which one I want to open. I can use the IO Kit APIs to get the bus location ID of the device I'm…
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Trouble running Android serial monitor lite on HCL ME U1

I am trying to run this USB Serial Monitor app on HCL ME U1 tablet (ICS 4.0.3, Kernel 3.0.8). I am connecting the tablet with a serial device using a FTDI FT232RL (USB to RS232) cable. When i connect the FTDI cable to tablet, notification asking…
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