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USB to DB9 Serial Connector

gallamine's picture
Posted Fri, 05/21/2010 - 7:42pm by gallamine

Check out this neat part I just found via Electronics-Lab. It's a DB9 serial connector with built in USB support! It uses the famous FTDI usb-to-serial chip, but incorporates it into a DB9 compatible housing. That means any legacy boards you might have can be instantly converted to use a USB port! Here's a link to the datasheet, and here's FTDI's product page. Not sure if/where you can buy these yet.

Makes me wonder why someone didn't think of this before!