libFTDI - FTDI USB driver with bitbang mode
libFTDI is an open source library to talk to FTDI chips: FT232BM, FT245BM, FT2232C, FT2232D and FT245R, including the popular bitbang mode. The library is linked with your program in userspace, no kernel driver required.
libFTDI works perfectly with Linux, Windows, MacOS X and BSD variants thanks to libusb.
News
2010-06-25: Version 0.18 of libftdi released
- Add ftdi_eeprom_free() to free allocated memory in eeprom
- More generic error message for the FTDI kernel driver
- Honor CPPFLAGS in python wrapper build
- cmake: Fix package creation on 32-bit machines
- Fix swig argument constraints
- Don't segfault if device is closed or ftdi context is invalid
- Ability to disable build of examples / documentation
- Fix typo in python wrapper build
- Autoconf build system improvements
- 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
License
The library itself is licensed under LGPL 2.1 (not any later),
the EEPROM programmer is licensed under GPL 2 (not any later)