USB to Serial Converter in DB9 RS-232 Compatible Package
Posted on May 21st, 2010 in Hobbyist
While doing my morning reading, I came across this gem of a device. It’s a DB9 pin-compatible USB port. That means for every board you have that originally took a DB9-style serial port, you can now drop in this device and have USB access instead. Inside the connector is FTDI’s ubiquitous USB-to-serial converter chip. Too bad it’s taken so long for something like this to show up. I can recall about 5 years ago when just about every robotic kit needed a serial port instead of USB. Thankfully things have begun to change, but this could be a great add-on to any legacy boards you find around the house or lab.
You can read the datasheet here.
[Via Electronics-Lab]
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May 22nd, 2010 at 10:14
Link to datasheet is slightly munged. Here’s a correction:
ftp://ftp.publitek.com/pub/PressData/FTD0040-DS_DB9-USB-RS232.pdf
May 22nd, 2010 at 10:20
John,
Thanks for the fix! Post has been updated.
June 11th, 2010 at 01:41
thats a great device indeed wondering if this type of device is avaliable for DB25-parallel port if anybody can give some info.
regards..
September 15th, 2010 at 13:55
Great thanks for the info! By Googling I found that I have found that http://www.USconverters.com can supply this very convenient USB Serial adapter