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15 years ago

FT2232H as USB blaster and RS232

Hi my company have a project that have a very small number of pins to the outer world in order to save those pins we thought about using this chip. my problem is that I don't know how th...
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15 years ago

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The suggested FT2232L replacement is FT2232D, as used in BeMicro. High speed FT2232H is an interesting device, but it's not suitable for a lot of applications. So FTDI surely will continue the full speed devices as well.

P.S.: I don't see, that the said USB_ReferenceDesign from the Altera MAX II development kit contains anything related to an USB to JTAG connection.

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you are correct. I mistakenly thought that H is just the newest device.

so it seems I can use the D version with the Bemicro drivers. these are good news.