{"id":303,"date":"2018-10-04T10:32:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T15:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacobncalvert.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2018-10-04T10:32:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T15:32:21","slug":"theres-a-new-usb-uart-chip-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacobncalvert.com\/blog-archive\/2018\/10\/04\/theres-a-new-usb-uart-chip-in-town\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a new USB-UART chip in town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/\">Hackaday<\/a>. I read it\u00a0<em>almost every day.<\/em> Yesterday I a blog post caught my eye and I wanted to share it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time if you want to add a USB interface to your project, you&#8217;ll have to get an FTDI chip, or one of those similarly operating knockoffs. But those chips require additional external circuitry that you may not want to fool with (I know I don&#8217;t).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2018\/10\/03\/new-part-day-the-fifty-cent-usb-chip\/\">This Hackaday blog post<\/a>\u00a0introduces a neat little chip, the CH330. This is a barebones chip which takes power, ground, D+, D- and renders a TX\/RX pair on the other side for your project. A couple of problems arise however. All the data sheets you can find as of this time are in Chinese, but Google translate does an okay job of translating them. Also, I couldn&#8217;t find them for sale yet on AliExpress, which is where I expect to see them first. Go over to the Hackaday article for all the juicy details about this new-to-market chip and how you can incorporate it into your next design.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Hackaday. I read it\u00a0almost every day. Yesterday I a blog post caught my eye and I wanted to share it. &nbsp; Most of the time if you want to add a USB interface to your project, you&#8217;ll have to get an FTDI chip, or one of those similarly operating knockoffs. But those chips require additional external circuitry that you may not want to fool with (I know I don&#8217;t).\u00a0This Hackaday blog post\u00a0introduces a neat little chip, the CH330.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[27,88,66,93],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>There&#039;s a new USB-UART chip in town - Jacob N Calvert<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jacobncalvert.com\/blog-archive\/2018\/10\/04\/theres-a-new-usb-uart-chip-in-town\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"There&#039;s a new USB-UART chip in town - Jacob N Calvert\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I love Hackaday. 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