Electronic – arduino – FTDI Basic Breakout – 5V

arduinobasicbreakout

Can this board be used to upload sketches to the Arduino. I tried by hooking the TX port on the FTDI Basic Breakout to RX port(Pin 2 on the Arduino) and RX port to pin 3 on the Arduino. But so far I am not abl to upload anything.

The driver for the board loads fine.

Thanks for any feed back.

Best Answer

As Joby Taffey suggests, the rx & tx pins of the AVR are 2 & 3 respectively, but on the Arduino headers they are pins 0 & 1. You also want to connect DTR to the reset pin of the arduino to enable automatic programming.

  FTDI        Arduino
Breakout        (5V)

     GND <--> GND
     CTS <--> (not connected)
      5V <--> 5V (if you want the breakout to power the arduino)
     TXO <--> RX (pin 0)
     RXO <--> TX (pin 1)
     DTR <--> RESET (possibly through a 100nF cap*)

On the FTDI TTL232R cable, DTR is not present so you have to manually reset the board before flashing. By default the Arduino will stay in the bootloader for 6-8s, but some boards rely on the automatic reset and have much shorter timeouts (0.25s say). For these boards, set upload.verbose = true in your Arduino conf file, and learn to time the reset the moment the software attempts to flash the board.

* Arduino Wiki

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