Thank You very much

Hello,

Our devices can't simulate regular flash memory.

Best Regards,
FTDI Community

And the second question, please. Can we implement a compound USB device using FTDI 600 and Dx200 or Dx300? One function will be regular file memory (like regular flash memory), and the second will be information conversion. We have implemented the second part. I'm interested in the first function. Can your device (ftdi) simulate regular flash memory. Thank you.

Thank you, Mister. We will make a decision and I will write to you. Moreover, we are going to change FTDI 200 to FTDI 600. But this, I think, does not make the problem go away

Hello,

Unfortunately the FTDI driver source is confidential so there is no documentation on it apart from the D2XX Programmer’s Guide.

If you wanted to write your own kernel based driver then we could provide an NDA to give you access to the API for FTxxxx Devices.

The USB Host Controller would need to implement FTDI drivers. This is not an easy task.

Please note that we can only provide a table of the USB transfers under NDA (API for FTxxxx Devices) and unfortunately we cannot provide source code samples or support for writing drivers on a particular OS.

Is a table of USB requirement sufficient for your needs?
It requires previous hands on writing USB driver experience for your particular MCU/OS and requires extensive USB knowledge.
It's a difficult task and we don’t provide support for it.

Please contact your local support team for the NDA form.

The other route you may want to explore is LibFTDI which is an open source library/driver but is not created/supported by FTDI:

https://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/

This third party solution already includes the source so may suit you if you as the driver source is also supplied and may give you more options.

Best Regards,
FTDI Community

Hello,

Unfortunately this is not something that we have any experience with.

Other FTDI community users may be able to help.

Best Regards,
FTDI Community

Hello everybody. I'm new to the FTDI community.
We have a controller that communicates with the computer via FTDI. We use the D2XX interface functions from the user mode program to communicate with the FTDI driver (device). Now I want to use the FTDI device from kernel mode (Windows), but we don't have any documentation related to the FTDI driver. Please tell me where to find or buy it. Thank you.

Yes, I know that the FT232 and FT245 can only be opened once. They provide a handle once opened.
This is why I only open it once and save the handle in shared memory so that other programs use it for read and write functions, but it doesn't work. I also have the same problem with the VCP driver

Hello,

When using the D2xx driver it can only be accessed by one handle at a time.

Note that FT245B is Not Recommended for New Designs (NRND) and is being made EOL.
See AN_559 Migrating from FT2xxB however the same limitation applies with the D2xx driver.

There could be other FTDI Community members who have experience with sharing a handle in shared memory but it's not something that FTDI support.

Best Regards,
FTDI Community

Hello FTDI Community 

Originally I had a DLL written in Visual Studio 6 ( win98 ) to communicate with an ISA card.
Several programs written in Visual Basic 6 can access this DLL and communicate simultaneously with the card. The DLL is written using mutex principles.
I replaced the bus part of the card with an Ftdi FT245. I rewrote the DLL to use D2xx driver. I can make the programs work, but only one at a time. I use the FT_Open, FT_Write, FT_Read, FT_Close functions.
I tried to share the handle in shared memory.
The other programs recover it well and do not open the port if it is already open, and uses the handle retrieved from shared memory to control the FT_Write, FT_Read functions, but these write and read functions return an error.

Thank you for your help