The document summarizes the WCH CH340G USB to UART interface chip. It provides serial communication over USB, allowing existing serial devices to connect to computers via USB. It supports baud rates up to 2Mbps and common serial signals like RTS and CTS. It operates from 5V or 3.3V supplies using minimal external components, and supports full-speed USB 2.0 communication. Tables provide specifications on electrical characteristics and pinouts. Application examples show how to use it to build a USB-serial adapter or optically isolated USB-UART adapter.
The document summarizes the WCH CH340G USB to UART interface chip. It provides serial communication over USB, allowing existing serial devices to connect to computers via USB. It supports baud rates up to 2Mbps and common serial signals like RTS and CTS. It operates from 5V or 3.3V supplies using minimal external components, and supports full-speed USB 2.0 communication. Tables provide specifications on electrical characteristics and pinouts. Application examples show how to use it to build a USB-serial adapter or optically isolated USB-UART adapter.
The document summarizes the WCH CH340G USB to UART interface chip. It provides serial communication over USB, allowing existing serial devices to connect to computers via USB. It supports baud rates up to 2Mbps and common serial signals like RTS and CTS. It operates from 5V or 3.3V supplies using minimal external components, and supports full-speed USB 2.0 communication. Tables provide specifications on electrical characteristics and pinouts. Application examples show how to use it to build a USB-serial adapter or optically isolated USB-UART adapter.
The document summarizes the WCH CH340G USB to UART interface chip. It provides serial communication over USB, allowing existing serial devices to connect to computers via USB. It supports baud rates up to 2Mbps and common serial signals like RTS and CTS. It operates from 5V or 3.3V supplies using minimal external components, and supports full-speed USB 2.0 communication. Tables provide specifications on electrical characteristics and pinouts. Application examples show how to use it to build a USB-serial adapter or optically isolated USB-UART adapter.
This is a third-party translation of WCH’s CH340 Series chipset’s Chinese datasheet, with information regarding CH340G chip extracted. The two other chips sharing the same datasheet, CH340R and C340T, have official English version.
1. Overview CH340 is a series of USB bus adapters, that provides serial, parallel or IrDA interfaces over the USB bus (note: CH340G supports serial interface only). The CH340G integrate circuit provides common MODEM signals to allow adding a UART to a computer, or converting existing UART devices to USB interface.
2. Features • Full-speed USB interface, compatible with USB 2.0 interface. • Operates with a minimum amount of external components: a crystal and a minimum of four capacitors. • Provides a virtual serial port for upgrading existing serial port devices or adding serial ports to a PC. • Supports all existing applications using serial ports without the need of changing existing code. • Hardware full-duplex serial interface with internal FIFO. Baud rate range from 50bps to 2Mbps. • Supports common flow control signals RTS, DTR, DCD, RI, DSR and CTS. • Supports RS232, RS422 and RS485 with external level shifting components. • Uses CH341 driver. • Supports 5V and 3.3V operation. • RoHS-compliant narrow body SO-16 package.
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Table of Contents CH340G USB to UART Interface Datasheet Disclaimer from DreamCity Innovations 1 1. Overview 1 2. Features 1 Table of Contents 2 3. Specifications 3 3.1. Absolute Maximum Ratings 3 3.2. DC characteristics 3 3.3. AC characteristics 3 4. Pinout 4 5. Application Notes 4 5.1. Example: USB RS232 adapter 5 5.2. Example: Optically isolated USB to UART adapter 6
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3. Specifications 3.1. Absolute Maximum Ratings Operating the chip at or beyond those ratings will cause the chip to malfunction, even irreversibly damage the chip.
Symbol Name Minimum Maximum Unit
TA Operating temperature -40 85 ºC
TS Storage temperature -40 125 ºC
VCC Supply rail voltage, reference to GND pin -0.5 6.5 V
VIO IO pin voltage, reference to GND pin -0.5 VCC+0.5 V
3.2. DC characteristics Symbol Name Minimum Typical Maximum Unit
5V operation 4.5 5 5.5
VCC Supply rail voltage V 3.3V operation 3.3 3.3 3.8
ICC Operating current 12 30 mA
5V operation 150 200
ISLP Sleeping current A 3.3V operation 50 80
VIL Low input voltage -0.5 0.7 V
VIH High input voltage 2.0 VCC+0.5 V
VOL Low output voltage 0.5 V
VOH High output voltage VCC-0.5 V
IUP Internal pull-up strength 3 150 300 A
IDN Internal pull-down strength -50 -150 -300 A
VR Brown-out detector threshold voltage 2.3 2.6 2.9 V
3.3. AC characteristics Symbol Name Minimum Typical Maximum Unit
FCLK Clock frequency (at pin XI) 11.98 12.00 12.02 MHz
