Breakout Board for FT232RL USB to Serial

Basic breakout board for FTDI's popular USB to UART IC. Now with internal oscillator and EEPROM, the FT232RL is an impressive IC!

VCCIO is now tied to 3.3V through a solder jumper. You have the option of clearing this jumper and tying the VCCIO pin to 5V or any other IO voltage you need. For more information on how to wire VCCIO for 5V, checkout this mini-tutorial on the SparkFun forum. Board comes assembled with IC as shown.

Check out these really well done tutorials on bit-banging SPI with the FT232. Nice work Michael!

Features

• Implements full v2.0 USB protocol
• Needs no external crystal
• Internal EEPROM for device ID and Product Description strings
• Royalty-Free Driver support for Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX

Dimensions: 0.9x1.25"

Documents

• FT232RL Breakout Schematic
• FT232RL IC Datasheet
• Eagle Files
• FTClean (for removing extraneous/old ports)
• Drivers: FTDI Driver Page