Areyourshop 4× FT245 USB Module FT245R FT245RL Communication Development Board Parallel FIFO

welcome to a new log today i'll be showing you how i created my own usb to serial adapter board and we'll go through some of the design decisions i had to make and i will explain the reasoning behind making these choices but first let me tell you the background story personally i have always liked having my own usb to serial adapter and here are a few that i have designed something like 10 years ago or maybe more the layout is not great my pcb skills were obviously not as good as they are today but nonetheless i created this adapter as an exercise but also for the important purpose of having a reliable and flexible tool reliable because i could control the chip that i'm using it was a scilabs cp2103 and i was getting it from a known distributor and flexible because i had all of the io of the chip broken out to 0.1 inch headers which would mean that i had the option to trigger a reset on