This interface board allows you to easily add a USB communications interface to your project. The board contains a FTDI FT232BL interface chip which provides an interface between a USB interface and a microcontroller UART using RS232 protocols. A virtual COM port driver is available which allows you to interface the board to Windows, MAC and Linux based applications including Visual Basic and Visual C++ etc. The FTDI device is able to communicate with data transfer speeds of up to 3M baud.