USB to TTL Serial Cable for Raspberry Pi

USB to TTL serial cables allow you to connect to your Raspberry Pi or microcontroller serial console port. The main body has a USB serial conversion chip, and the other end has four wires to hook up to your target board:

* Red = power

* Black - GND

* White = RX (into USB port)

* Green = TX (out of USB port)

The power pin provides 5V 500mA direct from the USB port and the RX/TX pins are 3.3V for interfacing with most common 3.3V logic level chipsets. The split jumper wires make it easy to hook up to a Raspberry Pi's debug console. Just connect the wires to the correct pins to set up a link to your board. You can even use these cables on some WiFi routers to install alternative operating systems. This cable is not for Arduino re-programming - it does not have the DTR/RTS wire necessary for initiating the bootloader reboot sequence. Use FTDI instead. Resources If you are running Linux, drivers are already included in the kernel, no need to install anything!

* Windows tutorial page with links to drivers for both PL2303 and CP2102

* Mac OS Xtutorial page with links to drivers for both PL2303 and CP2012

* PL2303HX.D datasheet

* PL2303TA datasheet

* CP210X Serial Communication Guide

* SiLabs CP210X product pages

Revision History

* As of December 2016 we will be shipping cables with SiLabs CP2012 chipset instead of Prolific