I recently found myself with a problem. I'm doing work with some higher speed TTL serial stuff (3M baud), and my FTDI adapters, which should be more than capable of handing this, were being mostly ...
Above are two FTDI FT232RL chips, an extremely common chip used to add a USB serial port to projects, builds, and products. The one on the left is a genuine part, while the chip on the right was ...