Datasheet

Overview

Long gone are the days of parallel ports and serial ports. Now the USB port reigns

supreme! But USB is hard, and you just want to transfer your every-day serial data from a

microcontroller to computer. What now? Enter the FTDI Friend!

The FTDI Friend is a tweaked out FTDI FT232RL chip adapter. Sure, like the well-known

FTDI cable, it can provide power to your project and there are 4 signal lines for sending

data back and forth. But the Friend can do much more! For example, you can change the

signal and power lines to be either 3.3V or 5V. Arduino-derivatives and XBees use the RTS

line for programming but what if you need that DTR line? Its there for you.

By default, we've set it up so that it matches our FTDI cables. The 6th pin is RTS (as of

Arduino IDE v18 this will work perfectly for uploading to 'inos), the power wire is +5V and

the signal levels are 3.3V (they are 5V compliant, and should work in the vast majority of