USB To Serial UART Breakout Development Tool (UCON-UART)

The INEX UCON-UART board is a small development tool based on the FT232RL USB to Serial UART interface chip. INEX created this tool to provide microcontroller developers easy access to a PC's USB port using the FTDI virtual device drivers. This tool is also a reference design for customer-based applications using the FTDI chip in-circuit.

Features:

• Based-on the FT232RL USB to Serial TTL-level UART converter chip
• Single chip USB to asynchronous serial data transfer interface
• Entire USB protocol handled by the chip - No USB-specific firmware programming required
• UART interface support for 7 or 8 data bits, 1 or 2 stop bits and all parity options
• Fully assisted hardware or X-On / X-Off software handshaking
• Data transfer rates from 300 baud to 3 Mega baud (RS422 / RS485 and at TTL levels) and 300 baud to 1 Mega baud (RS232).
• 256 byte receive buffer and 128 byte transmit buffer utilises buffer smoothing technology to allow for high data through put.
• Full UART pin configuration includes TxD, RxD, DTR, DSR, RTS, CTS, DCD and RI
• Get power from USB bus and supply power to external application (maximum 100mA)
• Jumper selectable logic level between +3.3V and +5V
• Interface with any microcontroller to communicate with computer via USB port
• Supports the Virtual COM port. The Programmer can create with popular visual programming tools such as Visual BASIC, Visual C or Borland Delphi.

The latest driver can be downloaded from http://www.ftdichip.com

Download the user guide here.