FTDI

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Future Technology Devices International Ltd.
legal form Family owned limited
founding March 13, 1992
Seat Glasgow , Scotland
management Fred Dart
Website www.ftdichip.com

This USB / UART adapter with the IC FT232RQ ( QFN housing, black square) supplies all signals required for an RS-232 connection with TTL level ; the level conversion is not included

The company Future Technology Devices International became known under its abbreviation FTDI for its USB - UART - Interface - Chips , with which it is possible to connect a serial interface of the RS-232 type via another level converter circuit with a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connect to.

It now also produces graphics chips with the brand name EVE (Embedded Video Engine) for controlling small touch displays and its own microcontroller.

The company is headquartered in Glasgow (Scotland) and has branches in Taiwan and the USA, and the integrated circuits are manufactured in Asia by subcontractors.

In October 2014, FTDI had a new driver for their USB RS232 chip FT232R distributed via Windows Update , which changed counterfeit chips so that they no longer worked. Although the driver was only distributed for a few days and the change is reversible with appropriate software, the company received a lot of attention. For a number of years she had struggled with the very widespread counterfeiting of this chip and had already taken steps beforehand to prevent the FTDI driver from supporting counterfeiting.

In early February 2016 come back into the headlines because of the Windows Update spread new drivers with fake chips the serial data stream replaced by the following FTDI: NON GENUINE DEVICE FOUND! . This means that the devices appear defective to the end user.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Future Technology Devices International Ltd .: Company Profile 2002. (PDF) March 19, 2002, accessed on March 4, 2014 .
  2. ↑ According to companieshouse.gov.uk the company was founded on February 14, 1992 under the name CASECHANCE LIMITED and only renamed on March 13, 1992.
  3. ^ A b Carsten Meyer: New microcontroller architecture from FTDI. heise online , March 3, 2014, accessed on March 4, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Carsten Meyer: EVE graphics from FTDI now for capacitive touchscreens. heise online , February 27, 2014, accessed on March 4, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Carsten Meyer: FTDI: Proactive Fake Chip Defense. heise online , October 23, 2014, accessed on October 27, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Alexander Merz: Windows drivers can damage handicraft computers. Golem.de , October 23, 2014, accessed on October 27, 2014 .
  7. ↑ FTDI FT232RL: real vs fake. February 17, 2014, accessed October 27, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Alexander Merz: FTDI: Driver manipulates chip replicas again. Golem.de , February 1, 2016, accessed on February 2, 2016 .