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Libftdi

The libFTDI to talk to FTDI chips (forked from http://developer.intra2net.com/git/?p=libftdi)

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libftdi version 1.2

libftdi - A library (using libusb) to talk to FTDI's UART/FIFO chips including the popular bitbang mode.

The following chips are supported:

  • FT230X
  • FT4232H / FT2232H
  • FT232R / FT245R
  • FT2232L / FT2232D / FT2232C
  • FT232BM / FT245BM (and the BL/BQ variants)
  • FT8U232AM / FT8U245AM

libftdi requires libusb 1.x.

The AUTHORS file contains a list of all the people that made libftdi possible what it is today.

Changes

  • Support for FT230X devices (Uwe Bonnes)
  • ftdi_usb_get_strings(): Don't try to open an already open device (Denis Sirotkin)
  • Support for finding devices bricked by the Windows driver (Forest Crossman)
  • cmake build system: New LibFTDI1ConfigVersion.cmake file (xantares09)
  • Fix a typo in the MPSSE command CLK_BYTES_OR_LOW (Benjamin Vanheuverzwijn)
  • Minor fixes for MSVC++ (Andrei Errapart)
  • Various small code improvements (Florian Preinstorfer, Jochen Sprickerhof, xantares09)

You'll find the newest version of libftdi at: http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi

Quick start

mkdir build cd build

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" ../ make make install

More verbose build instructions are in "README.build"


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