touch 34 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Recently as I've been working on more and more projects that I need to interact with via UART for debugging or interfacing, and I've been running out of serial ports! I was wondering if anyone knew of any boards/chips that would give me several virtual com ports from 1 IC/1 USB Port? All the USB to UART IC's and adapters I see give you only 1 UART and at most a few GPIO's, but I've yet to find any that give you multiple UART ports. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
zeke 693 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 How about the FT4232H? It has four UARTs inside it. Here's the datasheet for it. The chip costs around $10 each. Mouser has some modules for around $30 each but you will still have to wire up each UART to your target. What do you think? I'm thinking that there's a marketable product to be made with that device. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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