'Driverless' USB Serial ICs: drivers included as default Windows, Mac & Linux?

[TJ232]

thanks all,

surely if designing from scratch, getting official FTDI is as easy as going a proper distributor, say through Octopart?

@TJ232

whats your chips of choice?

Mostly Silicon Labs ones.

[janoc]

thanks all,

surely if designing from scratch, getting official FTDI is as easy as going a proper distributor, say through Octopart?

@TJ232

whats your chips of choice?

Mostly Silicon Labs ones.

Or the Microchip MCP2221 series of chips. Also the Chinese CH430 bridge is good, but getting it through some official channel may be a challenge.

[Matir]

Is there a good alternative for the MPSSE uses in the FT*232 series?  Looking for things like building JTAG adapters, I2C/SPI support, etc.

[janoc]

Is there a good alternative for the MPSSE uses in the FT*232 series?  Looking for things like building JTAG adapters, I2C/SPI support, etc.

I think not a direct replacement, but I believe Microchip has a series of USB bridges that include also I2C/SPI support. It is basically a pre-programmed PIC.