My guess is that there is something different about the designs/applications which are experiencing the lockups/malfunctions - too many products use the FTDI USB to UART parts successfully. Among many others are the Arduino Decimila and (Digi) XBEE daughter boards.
Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Wednesday 08 April 2009 22:57:02 DJ Delorie wrote: > >>> The FTDI USB UARTs have noise immunity issues. They tend to lock up >>> after running for an hour or so. And worst of all they only reset >>> themselves when the USB cable has been physically removed. It's a >>> well known problem. I would avoid this chip for new designs. >>> >> Is this an urban legend, or do we have proof? I've never had any >> problems with the FTDI parts, and I've run them for days on end. >> >> >>> Suggest looking at something from SiLabs. >>> >> FTDI has better Linux support. >> >> > > I've been *badly* stung by silicon bugs in FTDI devices before (4-figures > badly). > > Peter > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
