Hello all, and welcome to another article on bit-banging the FT232 for fun and profit.  Well, there’s no profit in it but at least we’ll have some fun.  Today we’re going to describe the development of a simple In System Programmer (ISP) for a CPLD device.
We hope you’ve already read our first three articles on […]

Welcome to our third introductory article on bit-banging the FT232 USB chips.  Hopefully you have read our first article and second article on this subject, and played around with the example software so you are already a resident expert on USB bit banging.
This will NOT be our last article on the FT232, but it will […]

In our last article, we gave a brief introduction to bit banging the FT232R.  As an example, we used the FT232 that comes installed on the Arduino board.  In this article, we’ll provide a little more detail on bit banging and the associated pros and cons.  We are still using the Arduino diecimila board for […]