![]() ![]() A bit of solder braid, and the board was ready for the genuine chip. To replace the counterfeit chip, covered the pins in a nice big glob of solder, carefully heated both sides of the chip, and slid the offending chip off when everything was molten. ![]() Notwithstanding driver issues, the best reason for swapping out fake chips for real ones is the performance at higher bit rates is doing work at 3 Mbps, and the fake chips just don’t work that fast. 2 was a variation on a theme where the FTDI driver would inject garbage data into a circuit if a non-genuine part was found. This bricked a whole bunch of devices, and was generally regarded as a bad move. 1, where the official FTDI driver for Windows detected non-genuine chips and set the USB PID to zero. Why is replacing non-genuine chips with the real FTDI? The best reason is FTDIgate Mk. It’s brilliant, and an excellent display of desoldering prowess. While you can buy a USB to serial adapter with a legitimate chip, found a cheaper solution: buy the counterfeit adapters, a few genuine chips, and rework the PCB. This means the chips on the cheap adapters are counterfeit. The chip on this board is an FTDI FT232RL, and costs about two dollars in quantity. If you know where to go on the Internet, you can pick up an FTDI USB to Serial adapter for one dollar and sixty-seven cents, with free shipping worldwide. ![]()
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