Virtual COM port (VCP) drivers cause the USB device to appear as an additional COM port available to the PC. Application software can access the USB device in the same way as it would access a standard COM port.
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Currently Supported VCP Drivers:
| Processor Architecture | |||||||||
| Operating System | Release Date | x86 (32-bit) | x64 (64-bit) | PPC | ARM | MIPSII | MIPSIV | SH4 | Comments |
| Windows* | 2017-08-30 | - | - | - | - | - | WHQL Certified. Includes VCP and D2XX. Available as a setup executable Please read the Release Notes and Installation Guides. | ||
| Linux | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | All FTDI devices now supported in Ubuntu 11.10, kernel 3.0.0-19 Refer to TN-101 if you need a custom VCP VID/PID in Linux VCP drivers are integrated into the kernel. |
| Mac OS X 10.3 to 10.8 | 2012-08-10 | 2.2.18 | 2.2.18 | 2.2.18 | - | - | - | - | Refer to TN-105 if you need a custom VCP VID/PID in MAC OS |
| Mac OS X 10.9 and above | 2020-08-13 | - | 2.4.4 | - | - | - | - | - | This driver is signed by Apple |
| Windows CE 4.2-5.2** | 2012-01-06 | 1.1.0.20 | - | - | 1.1.0.20 | 1.1.0.10 | 1.1.0.10 | 1.1.0.10 | |
| Windows CE 6.0/7.0 | 2016-11-03 | 1.1.0.22 CE 6.0 CAT CE 7.0 CAT | - | - | 1.1.0.22 CE 6.0 CAT CE 7.0 CAT | 1.1.0.10 | 1.1.0.10 | 1.1.0.10 | For use of the CAT files supplied for ARM and x86 builds refer to AN_319 |
| Windows CE 2013 | 2015-03-06 | 1.0.0 | 1.0.0 | VCP Driver Support for WinCE2013 | |||||
*Includes the following version of of the Windows operating system: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 8, 8.1, Windows server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10. Also, as Windows 8 RT is a closed system not allowing for 3rd party driver installation our Windows 8 driver will not support this variant of the OS. You must use the Windows RT build for this platform.
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**includes the following versions of Windows CE 4.2-5.2 based operating systems: Windows Mobile 2003, Windows Mobile 2003 SE, Windows Mobile 5, Windows Mobile 6, Windows Mobile 6.1 ,Windows Mobile 6.5
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| Processor Architecture | |||||||||
| Operating System | Release Date | x86 (32-bit) | x64 (64-bit) | PPC | ARM | MIPSII | MIPSIV | SH4 | Comments |
| Previous Windows Release | 2017-03-10 | 2.12.26 | 2.12.26 | WHQL Certified. Includes VCP and D2XX. Available as a setup executable Please read the Release Notes and Installation Guides. | |||||
| Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008 | 2012-04-13 | 2.08.24 | 2.08.24 | - | - | - | - | - | WHQL Certified Also available as a setup executable Release notes This is FTDI's final release before Microsoft stopped certifying drivers for these versions of Windows. |
| Windows 2000 | 2009-10-22 | 2.06.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | WHQL Certified Available as setup executable Release notes |
| Windows 98/ME | 2004-11-25 | 1.09.06 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Does not support FT2232 or FT4232 devices |
| Windows 98/ME | 2004-03-12 | 1.0.3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Only supports FT2232D devices |
| Mac OS 9 Mac OS 8 | 2004-05-18 | - | - | 1.0f4 | - | - | - | - | |
| Mac OS X 10.9 and above | 2015-04-15 | - | 2.3 | - | - | - | - | - | This driver is signed by Apple |
| Linux | 2009-05-14 | 1.5.0 | 1.5.0 | ||||||