libFTDI - FTDI USB driver with bitbang mode

libFTDI is an open source library to talk to FTDI chips:

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

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.

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News

2017-08-07: Version 1.4 of libftdi released

• New ftdi_usb_open_bus_addr() open function
• Use BM/R series baud rate computation for FT230X
• ftdi_get_error_string() now returns const char*
• C++ API: Ability to open devices with empty descriptor strings
• C++ API: Fix enumerations for buffer purge and modem controls
• small build fixes and improvements in the python examples
• ftdi_eeprom / eeprom handling:
  • New API function: ftdi_eeprom_get_strings()
  • Fix USE_SERIAL handling for 230X type chips
  • Make ftdi_read_eeprom_location() endianness independent
  • Fix flashing of FT245R

2016-05-20: Version 1.3 of libftdi released

• Added ftdi_usb_get_strings2() to prevent automatic device close (Fahrzin Hemmati)
• Added ftdi_transfer_data_cancel() for cancellation of a submitted transfer, avoided resubmittion of a canceled transfer in the callbacks, replaced calls to libusb_handle_events with libusb_handle_events_timeout_completed (Eugene Hutorny)
• ftdi_eeprom / eeprom handling:
  • Add support for arbitrary user data (Salvador Eduardo Tropea)
  • Add --build-eeprom support (Salvador Eduardo Tropea)
  • Fix use_usb_version config file option (Thilo Schulz)
  • Ability to include other config files in EEPROM config file (Thilo Schulz)
  • Add external oscillator enable bit (Raphael Assenat)
  • Support channel configuration (Stephan Linz)
  • Added --device option to ftdi_eeprom to specify FTDI device (Robin Haberkorn)
  • Fixed EEPROM user-area space checks for FT232R and FT245R chips (Robin Haberkorn)
• Various improvements to CBUS handling, including the EEPROM (Robin Haberkorn)
• swig wrapper: Fix handling of binary strings in ftdi_write_data() for python 3 (xantares09)
• cbus python example code (Rodney Sinclair)
• ftdi_stream: fix timeout setting (Ларионов Даниил)
• Fixed typo in CBUS defines: CBUSG_DRIVE1 -> CBUSH_DRIVE1

2014-11-21: Version 1.2 of libftdi released

• 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)

License

The library itself is licensed under LGPL 2.1 (not any later),
the EEPROM programmer is licensed under GPL 2 (not any later)