Out of the box the FT232H is configured to act just like an. This is great for talking to a serial device like an Arduino from your computer. It's safe to use with both 3.3 volt and 5 volt signals. This means the FT232H breakout can used to safely talk to an Arduino's 5 volt serial ports, and a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone Black's 3.3 volt serial ports! When used as a serial UART the FT232H breakout pins have the following serial functions: • D0 - TX or transmit pin. This pin is the serial data output by the FT232H chip and should be connected to the RX or receive pin of a serial device.

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• D1 - RX or receive pin. Solidsquad solidworks 2014 keygen crack patch. This pin is the serial data input for the FT232H chip and should be connected to the TX or transmist pin of a serial device.

• D2 - RTS or ready to send pin. This is an optional pin for flow control of serial connections. • D3 - CTS or clear to send pin.

Like RTS, this is an optional pin for flow control. • D4 - DTR or data terminal ready pin. Another optional pin for flow control in RS-232 serial connections.

• D5 - DSR or data set ready pin. Like DTR, this is another optional pin for flow control in RS-232 serial connections. • D6 - DCD or data carrier detect pin. This is an optional pin that is sometimes used in RS-232 serial communication.

The most important and commonly used serial pins are D0 and D1 for the TX and RX pins. The other pins are only necessary if you're using a device with flow control or specific RS-232 serial needs. USB Serial Drivers Before you can use the FT232H as a serial UART you need to make sure the proper serial port drivers are installed.

Luckily most operating systems include FTDI's serial UART driver so there typically isn't any installation necessary. Specifically Mac OSX Mavericks or greater have the FTDI serial driver included automatically.

Linux kernel versions since ~2.6 also have the FTDI serial driver included, so modern Linux distributions like Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04 should work without any driver installation. Windows can usually search online to find the driver automatically, however if that fails see below for manual driver installation instructions. If for some reason your operating system doesn't have FTDI serial drivers installed, you can. There are drivers available for Windows 7 & 8, Mac OSX, and Linux. Windows Serial Driver Installation Below I'll briefly walk through installation of the FTDI serial driver for Windows since it is a common platform to install the driver. First start with your Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 machine booted and the FT232H board disconnected from the PC., make sure to pick the Windows setup executable version of the driver. Next open explorer and navigate to the folder where the driver executable was downloaded.

Right click on the file and select Run as administrator as shown below to start the installation. It's important to run as administartor or else the driver installation will fail to copy files to Window's system directories. Now click through the setup pages, read and accept the license agreement, etc.

To install the driver. The aren't any configuration or setup options you need to change or worry about in the installation. Once the installation is done you might need to reboot your machine if the installation program tells you to do so. After rebooting, plug in the FT232H breakot to your PC using a USB micro cable.

You should see a message pop up that the device is recognized and a driver is being installed. To check that the serial port installed successfully and find the COM port assigned to it, open device manager by clicking the start menu and searching for Device Manager. Inside device manager look under the Ports (COM & LPT) node and you should see a USB Serial Port (COMx) device, where x is a number like 5. This COMx is the COM port assigned to the FT232H serial UART, and what you should use when connecting to the serial port in the Arduino IDE or with a serial terminal program.