[clug] Is there a standard USB to serial protocol?

Ben Nizette bn at niasdigital.com
Sat Aug 21 00:37:14 MDT 2010


On 21/08/2010, at 4:35 PM, Adam Baxter wrote:

> Isn't the defacto standard whatever FTDI uses for USB->serial emulation?

Well only insofar as FTDI supply 90% of USB->serial converter chips.  The other ~10% is supplied by Prolific (eg PL2303) and uses a different protocol.

	--Ben.


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