libFTDI
A library to talk to FTDI chips: FT232BM/245BM, FT2232C/D and FT232/245R using libusb, including the popular bitbang mode. This library is linked with your program in userspace, no kernel driver required.
News
2009-12-19: Version 0.17 of libftdi released
- C++ wrapper: Reduced code duplication and small other changes
- Deprecated old ftdi_enable_bitbang() function
- New ftdi_usb_open_desc_index() function
- Added baud rate test example code
- New serial input example code
- Fix modem status byte filtering for USB high speed chips
- Add bitmode for synchronous fifo in FT2232H
- Fix usb_set_configuration() call on Windows 64
- Fix usb index in ftdi_convert_baudrate() for FT2232H/FT4232H chips
- Set initial baudrate on correct interface instead of always the first one
- Call usb_set_configuration() on Windows only
- 64 bit and other buildsystem fixes
- Don't build --with-async-mode w/ libusb-compat-0.1
- Functions for read/write of a single eeprom location
- Protect against double close of usb device
- Fix out-of-tree-build in python wrapper
- Autoconf and doxygen cleanup
- C++ wrapper: Reopen the device after calling get_strings() in Context::open()
- C++ wrapper: Fixed an inheritance problem
- C++ wrapper: Relicensed under GPLv2 + linking exception
- Support for FT2232H and FT4232H
- Support for mingw cross compile
- Python bindings and minor autoconf cleanup
- Code cleanup in various places
- Fixed ftdi_read_chipid in some cases
- eeprom decode function and small cleanups
- cmake system improvements
- Fix compilation in -ansi -pedantic mode
- Fix a crash using newer libftdi versions
- Updated autoconf suite
License
The library itself is licensed under LGPL 2.1 (not any later),
the EEPROM programmer is licensed under GPL 2 (not any later)