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FTDI FT2232H USB to UART/MPSSE/JTAG Breakout Board
The FTDI FT2232H Hi-Speed Dual USB UART/FIFO Breakout Board provides a variety of standard serial and parallel interfaces: Asynchronous UART JTAG I2C SPI Parallel FIFO The board includes two linear regulators offering either 3.3V or 2.5V IO. An on-board Serial EEPROM stores custom USB descriptors, VID/PIDs and configurations. Design Files Design files can be downloaded from the Circuit Maker website. Circuit Maker is a free EDA tool from Altium. FT2232H Breakout version 1.A.1 Gerbers (Zip) FT2232H Breakout version 1.A.1 Schematics (PDF) The PCB for this design was fabricated by oshpark.com