So he tried his hand with some really small SMD parts by building this USB to serial Arduino programmer. The chip he went with isn’t the FTDI part we’re used to. Instead of using an FT232RL ...

and driver extensions (DExt) are handled. As these FTDI chips are often used for virtual com port (VCP) purposes, such as with Arduino boards and USB-TTL adapters, this is a rather cumbersome ...

Arduino, Jetson Nano and others. Has taken to Kickstarter to launch the USB to TTL USB-UART plug and play interface solution. “USB TTL is developed with the advanced CP2102 and CH340 chipsets ...