Re: gEDA-user: FT232R

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 08 April 2009, Mike Hansen wrote:
>Quick FYI:
>
>
>
>The FTDI USB UARTs have noise immunity issues.  They tend to lock up after
> running for an hour or so.  And worst of all they only reset themselves
> when the USB cable has been physically removed.  It's a well known problem.
>  I would avoid this chip for new designs.
>
I could almost argue the point about FTDI stuff.  I'm also on the heyu list, 
where a couple of years ago we became aware that 99% of the adapter problems 
heyu was having (and coincidentally the apcupsd list found the same) were 
related to the user using a PL2303 based adapter.  So we started telling the 
newbies to bin them and get FTDI stuff, because it Just Works(TM).  And it 
does, there are 5 or 6 of them in this system right now, and they are 
dependable and 100% transparent.

2 of the ones I am using are booster hubs on the other end of 16 foot cables. 
Nary a hiccup in a years use.  Mother nature blew one of them all to hell, but 
when the systems are 25 feet apart, the EMP from a nearby strike can do heavy 
duty things to electronics.

>Suggest looking at something from SiLabs.
>
>> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 17:32:08 -0400
>> From: dj@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> CC: MrUmunhum@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: FT232R
>>
>>
>> Ah, the perils of open source. With proprietary software, your
>> problem is not enough symbols. With open source, your problem is too
>> many.
>>
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