Product Summary

The FT232BM is the 2nd generation of FTDI popular USB UART I.C. The FT232BM is not only adds extra functionality to its FT8U232AM predecessor and reduces external component count, but also maintains a high degree of pin compatibility with the original, making FT232BM easy to upgrade or cost reduce existing designs as well as increasing the potential for using the FT232BM in new application areas.

Parametrics

FT232BM absolute maximum ratings: (1)Storage Temperature –65oC to + 150oC; (2)Floor Life (Out of Bag) at Factory Ambient: 192 Hours (Level 3 Compliant); (3)Ambient Temperature (Power Applied): 0oC to + 70oC; (4)VCC Supply Voltage: -0.5 to +6.00V; (5)D.C. Input Voltage - USBDP and USBDM: -0.5 to +3.8V; (6)D.C. Input Voltage - High Impedance Bidirectionals: -0.5 to +(Vcc +0.5)V; (7)D.C. Input Voltage - All other Inputs: -0.5 to +(Vcc +0.5)V; (8)DC Output Current – Outputs: 24mA; (9)DC Output Current – Low Impedance Bidirectionals: 24mA; (10)Power Dissipation (VCC = 5.25V): 500mW; (11)Electrostatic Discharge Voltage (Human Body Model) (I < 1uA): +/- 3000 V; (12)Latch Up Current (Vi = +/- 10V maximum, for 10 ms): +/-200mA.

Features

FT232BM features: (1)Single Chip USB, Asynchronous Serial Data Transfer; (2)Full Handshaking & Modem Interface Signals; (3)UART I/F Supports 7 / 8 Bit Data, 1 / 2 Stop Bits and Odd/Even/Mark/Space/No Parity; (4)Data rate 300 => 3M Baud (TTL); (5)Data rate 300 => 1M Baud (RS232); (6)Data rate 300 => 3M Baud (RS422/RS485); (7)384 Byte Receive Buffer / 128 Byte Transmit Buffer for high data throughput; (8)Adjustable RX buffer timeout; (9)Fully Assisted Hardware or X-On / X-Off Handshaking; (10)In-built support for event characters and line break condition; (11)Auto Transmit Buffer control for RS485; (12)Support for USB Suspend / Resume through SLEEP# and RI# pins; (13)Support for high power USB Bus powered devices through PWREN# pin; (14)Integrated level converter on UART and control signals for interfacing to 5V and 3.3V logic; (15)Integrated 3.3V regulator for USB IO; (16)Integrated Power-On-Reset circuit; (17)Integrated 6MHz 48Mhz clock multiplier PLL; (18)USB Bulk or Isochronous data transfer modes; (19)4.35V to 5.25V single supply operation; (20)USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 compatible; (21)USB VID, PID, Serial Number and Product Description strings in external EEPROM; (22)EEPROM programmable on-board via USB; (23)Compact 32-LD LQFP package.

Diagrams

FT232BM Block Diagram

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FT232BM
FT232BM

FTDI

UART Interface IC Obsolete FT232BL

Data Sheet

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FT230XQ-R
FT230XQ-R

FTDI

USB Interface IC USB to Basic Serial UART IC QFN-16

Data Sheet

0-1: $1.22
1-50: $1.18
50-100: $1.14
100-1000: $0.84
1000-5000: $0.81
FT230XQ-T
FT230XQ-T

FTDI

USB Interface IC USB to Basic Serial UART IC QFN-16

Data Sheet

0-620: $1.14
620-1000: $0.84
1000-5000: $0.81
FT230XS-R
FT230XS-R

FTDI

USB Interface IC USB to Basic Serial UART IC SSOP-16

Data Sheet

0-1: $1.22
1-50: $1.18
50-100: $1.14
100-1000: $0.84
1000-3000: $0.84
FT230XS-U
FT230XS-U

FTDI

USB Interface IC USB to Basic Serial UART IC SSOP-16

Data Sheet

0-630: $1.14
630-1000: $0.84
1000-5000: $0.81
FT231XQ-R
FT231XQ-R

FTDI

USB Interface IC USB to Full Serial UART IC QFN-20

Data Sheet

0-1: $1.27
1-50: $1.23
50-100: $1.19
100-1000: $0.87
1000-5000: $0.84
FT231XQ-T
FT231XQ-T

FTDI

USB Interface IC USB to Full Serial UART IC QFN-20

Data Sheet

0-620: $1.19
620-1000: $0.87
1000-5000: $0.84