Just over a year ago, FTDI, manufacturers of the most popular USB to serial conversion chip on the market, released an update to their drivers that bricked FTDI clones. Copies of FTDI chips abound ...

Isn’t that nice? The CH340 series of chips do exactly what you would expect them to do: a full-speed USB device that emulates a standard serial interface, with speeds from 50bps to 2Mpbs.

As this amount of control information is significant, RF chips usually contain registers that store part of the received control signals and can be programmed sequentially. The typical means to ...