[felhr]

Somedays ago discovered that my FT232 which I used to develop a FTDI user-space driver for Android is a counterfeit one. Ironically the feedback I've received about this project is mostly positive.

I now have to test the Flow control and the parity/frame... signals so I hope I wont have to buy one.

Before the 1st FTDIGate, as a guy who has implemented user-space drivers for the most common USB to serial converters my opinions about the FTDI were quite good (from an engineering standpoint I really like the solution they use to send the CTS,Parity status, Break... in a two bytes packet every 40ms which it is a good simulation of a serial port instead of having to poll sending control commands) but now I would recommend to avoid them.

From my humble experience I would recommend CP2102, they work fine (and have a nice documentation for driver developers). The CH340/CH341 is real pain.