I am having the Bot Board II and the SSC-32 designed with USB comm functionality using the FTDI chip. The Basic Micro guys say the FTDI is better then Prolific. I have used the IO Gear GUC232 and BAFO ones which use the Prolific chip, but I know others have used the Parallax one …

I have had good luck with both. I am currently using a Prolific chip with the BAFO cable that I currently use to work on the Atom Pro. I am using FTDI chips with Parallax (propeller) as well as ones I purchased earlier from Raido Shack (Startech?). If I were you, I would choos…

I’ve got a Startech USB serial adapter with the prolific chip and it works the best of several adapters I have. The below adapter has the FDTI chip and apparently it also works well. I suggest also adding a jumper on the ssc-32 board such that the board itself can be powered by t…

no experience with the prolific chip but have used several of the FTDI devices in products over the years. The newest ones are great… almost nothing required outside the chip itself. I will add I have not used them under Vista, Linux, or Mac OS so those are unknowns with respec…

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Which USB is best? FTDI or Prolific

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zoomkat August 21, 2008, 3:59am 5

Also, if the ssc-32 board is being redesigned, make the chip voltage reference pin jumpered so that the jumper can be easily removed and another reference voltage connected to the chip.