Lpc2000

You can use TX and RX only but you want to watch out for UART speed 
as FT232 can run really fast. It would be a lot better if you use 
handshaking lines CTS and RTS, or at least CTS. If your application 
require real time then you would need to use RI (ring) as this pin 
will empty the FT232 buffer without waiting for timeout. DTR can be 
used as a digital output to control something like reset, boot 
loader...etc.

Good luck

Gus

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Curt Powell" <curt.powell@s...> 
wrote:
> We've interfaced the FTDI FT245BM chip with the LPC2106 before (a 
nice USB
> solution) but a new project doesn't allow us the 12 GPIO pins 
required by
> the FT245BM chip, so we're looking at the FT232BM chip with the 
UART
> interface.  Has anyone done this integration before?  
Specifically, is it
> possible to use UART0 (only Tx and Rx pins) or is it necessary to 
use the
> full complement of pins available on UART1?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Curt