Comparison of TI TUSB3410 and FTDI FT232BM

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TUSB3410 is from Texas Instrument
https://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tusb3410.html

FT232BM is from FTDI
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The TUSB3410 can be used to build an interface between a legacy serial peripheral device and a PC with USB ports, such as a legacy-free PC.

FTDI - specialists in converting legacy peripherals to Universal Serial Bus ( USB ). We offer the easiest route to USB migration by combining USB Serial ( USB RS232 ) and USB FIFO silicon solutions with our ready-to-go royalty free USB drivers.

If I'm not mistaken, both devices provide bridging between a USB port and a UART serial port. FT232BM requires a DRIVER (provided by FTDI) to work. What about TUSB3410 from TI? Does it need a driver too? If YES, is the driver provided free?

Thanks in advance for any comments.

 

[M!k]

ft232bm

of course they need a driver too. Here the windows-drivers and the firmware can be ordered for free:
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Mik

 

[TheDane]

ft232bm drivers

I just made a design with the TUSB3410 and it works quite nicely.

One of the advantages is that you can use an eeprom, and define PID and VID yourself

The driver provided at TI's site works quite well.

 

[bamdad]

ft232bm driver

... if the firmware enumerates as CDC, the driver is provided by windows, and no extra drivers would be necessary...


BTW, does anyone have the TI's reference USB/RS232 bridge firmware? not the bootloader sourcecode, I already have that...

 

[scholar]

tusb3410 ftdi

Hello,i am new to the TUSB3410 and wish to build a project on it. May i know that should i refer to the circuitry provided in their EVM board or do anyone have any other sources of the hardware? Should i use the external eprom or can use the build in 8052?

THank you. Here is the link from TI EVM on the TUSB3410 :
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[bamdad]

ft232 free samples

The external EEPROM only stores firmware code which you have to write for your application. be informed that if you need some sort of simple USB/RS232 bridge, there are far simpler method other than using TUSB3410... chips like FT232BM does the job far simpler and far better.
during development, you can use TI's application loader driver to download your code via USB to the chip's internal memory.

 

[movingbait]

driver tusb3410

If you are looking in UART to USB sollutions;

recommand you have a lok at CP2102

https://www.silabs.com/tgwWebApp/pu...s/Microcontrollers/Interface/en/interface.htm

2 capacitors are all external components for usb interface

anpther 2 minute type

 

[scholar]

ftdi usb driver ft232bm

Thanks for the advices....But the main reason i choose TUSB3410 is the available free samples from TI. I can test it with my project first before really spending money to buy it,save some development cost.

So from what Bamdad said, it is neccessary to have an external eeprom right?

 

[bamdad]

rs232 ti driver pdf

No, It is not necessay, as I said before, you can use TI's apploader driver, which is a software provided free from TI, to download your code to onchip RAM on TUSB3410 (and other chips from TUSB family). they come preprogrammed by TI to download their firmware from IIC ROM OR from USB host... so, to sum it up, the ROM is not necessary in development course, but for your product, it is necessary, since otherwise, you have to ship TI's apploader with your product, which is illegal, or write your own APPLOADER like driver, which is literally time consuming!