Foca Pro

Overview

Foca Pro is a USB to serial UART board with XBee interface socket. It’s the essential tools for establishing communication between PC and mostly MCU or use XBee. Especially, it’s a optimum tool for some Arduino based boards without USB interface, like Sniffer Nano, Colorduino and etc.

Specification

PCB size	26mm X 49.6mm X 1.6mm
Voltage Input	5V
Interface	UART
Indicator	PWR

Features

• Single chip USB to asynchronous serial data transfer interface
• Entire USB protocol handled on the chip – No firmware programming require
• 5V Single Supply Operation and compatible with 3.3V/5V operation voltage
• USB 2.0 Full Speed compatible
• Compatible with Xbee
• Compatible with 2.00mm Grove Electronic Interface

Electronic Characteristics

	Min	Typical	Max	Unit
Power Supply	4.5	5	5.5	VDC
Input voltage VinH(Target Voltage = 3.3V )	3	3.3	3.6	V
Input voltage VinH(Target Voltage = 5V )	4.5	5	5.5	V
Input voltage VinL	-0.3	0	0.5	V
Current Consumption	-	20	40	mA

Hardware

Pin Map

Pin	Pin name	Description
1	DTR	Data Terminal Ready Control Output
2	GND	Ground
3	RXD	Receiving Data Input
4	TXD	Transmit Data Output
5	VIO	5V/3.3V

Driver Installation

Foca Pro adopts CP2102 chip instead of FT232RL chip on Foca board, thus we cannot use driver file in the driver directory of Arduino IDE to install the driver. http://www.silabs.com/products/interface/usbtouart/Pages/usb-to-uart-bridge.aspx

You can download CP2102 driver for different platforms including MAC version, Linux version and Windows version. Once downloaded, plug in Foca Pro, search for CP2102 among the unknown devices, then click Upgrade Driver and manually install. Point the driver position to the downloaded driver directory and then install, finally the corresponding serial number can be found on IDE.

More details of installation instructions, you can refer to this file: ftp://imall.iteadstudio.com/Mainboard/IM130615004_ITeaduino_Nano/DOC_Driver_Installation.pdf