Back (GND): Connect to the ground pin of the device to which you want to connect with the computer.

Following are the details and functionality of all pins. Now let’s first see the pin details of serial side device. You can simply plug it into your computer or laptop. The other side of the FTDI cable is just a type-A USB connector. If you are using this module, you will have to connect an external USB cable with this device to connect with the computer. One type is just a converter module and there is USB cable connected with it as shown in figure below. This USB to serial converter is available in marker in two types. After installation of device drivers, the US232R adapter appears as a virtual COM port in device manager settings. To use this FTDI cable, we need a device driver which is available to download freely from FTDI website. In other words, this cable provides an effective and cheap solution to connect TTL serial interface to USB. This FTDI chip converts USB data to serial and vice versa. FTDI cable comes with an internal mounted electronic circuit which uses FTDI FT232R chip. The USB to RS232 converter cables provide a simple communication method between serial devices with RS232 to modern USB supported devices.

USB to Serial FTDI Cable Applications FTDI Cable Introduction.

How to use FTDI USB to Serial Converter?.

FTDI USB to Serial Cable Pinout Diagram.

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