The USB side of the cable is USB powered and USB 2.0 full speed compatible.
The other end of the cable is bare, tinned wire ended connections which can be quickly connected to the NMEA 0183 compatible equipment with suitable connector block or terminals. This circuitry provides full bi-directional conversion of the serial data and also includes Tx and Rx LEDs which give a visual indication of data traffic on the cable.8m long and supports a data transfer rate up to 1 Mbaud. Drivers are available for WinXP, Vista, Win7, LINUX and Mac OS X.