# FT-X breakout boards

**URL:** <https://community.sparkfun.com/t/ft-x-breakout-boards/24257>\
**Category:** New Product Ideas\
**Created:** [May 25, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/ft-x-breakout-boards/24257 "2012-05-25T00:58:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![stratosfear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@stratosfear](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/stratosfear)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/ft-x-breakout-boards/24257/1 "2012-05-25T00:58:57Z")

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FTDI’s new FT-X devices, [http://www.ftdichip.com/FT-X.htm](http://www.ftdichip.com/FT-X.htm), ought to be great candidates for breakout boards. The FT230X and FT231X would replace the FT232RL in _most_ cases, just smaller and cheaper.

Jon

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**Author:** ![MichaelN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@MichaelN](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/MichaelN)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/ft-x-breakout-boards/24257/2 "2012-05-25T02:57:25Z")

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If you look further down the page you linked to, FTDI already make breakout boards. These are less than $10 at Digikey, so not sure why Sparkfun would bother making their own. Would be nice if Sparkfun stocked them though.

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**Author:** ![macegr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@macegr](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/macegr)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/ft-x-breakout-boards/24257/3 "2012-05-29T22:09:30Z")

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I can at least verify that the FT230X works beautifully for an Arduino bootloader on a 3.3V system, since avrdude now pulses both DTR and RTS for reset.

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**Author:** ![jimpar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jimpar](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/jimpar)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/ft-x-breakout-boards/24257/4 "2012-06-05T22:52:58Z")

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There’s a super-small MicroUSB FT230X breakout available at [http://jim.sh/ftx/](http://jim.sh/ftx/). It’s open hardware, so Sparkfun could use the design if they’d like.