Hello, I just released a very early version of my 'ftdi' library [1]. It is a small layer on top of the usb package [2] that enables you to communicate with FTDI [3] devices. Its design is based on the C-library libftdi [4], but it implemented completely in Haskell. Most functionality is untested. I only have access to an FT2232C chip, so testing other chips is not possible at the moment. Furthermore, the only thing I do with that chip is perform bulk reads and the occasional small (1 byte) bulk write. The good news is that it is quite good a bulk reads. It outperformed both libftdi-0.16 and the official driver [5] by about 40% for my use case. Although to be fair, both C libraries used the old libusb-0.1 library. This library is ultimately linked with libusb-1.0.* which is a complete rewrite. To play with the library either cabal install ftdi or darcs get http://code.haskell.org/~roelvandijk/code/ftdi Regards, Roel van Dijk 1 - http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ftdi 2 - http://ftdichip.com/ 3 - http://hackage.haskell.org/package/usb 4 - http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/ 5 - http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX.htm