FTDI Chip
FTDI is a professional semiconductor company headquartered in Glasgow, UK, with quite a long history and market awareness especially in Europe in US. It has been well known by its leading position in USB-related semiconductor development, specifically for the end applications of communication, industrial control, medical, and instrument. Now it has also successfully taken a position in the digital consumer application. FTDIs competing advantage lies in providing complete solutions to lead the market demands by chips, reference designs, firmwares, softwares, and evaluation modules, in order to assist the customers to easily finish the design-in in a short time frame with quality end products. FTDI has established a global sales and support network, including two branches located in US and Taiwan, respectively. Now FTDI offers a wide range of easy to use USB host and slave bridge chips supporting UART, FIFO, SPI, and I²C control interfaces, together with complete drivers and firmwares support kits. It also offers a series of evaluation modules and cables to support the customers' design-in phase.
FTDI official website: https://ftdichip.com/