UCAB232 is a USB to RS232 converter based on FT232BL chip by the company FTDI.

UCAB232 consists of a 1 meter translucent cable with and A-type USB connector on one side and the blue enclosure on the opposite side which contains converter electronics and 9-pin SubD male connector with all RS232 signals. Full hardware handshake is supported (RTS/CTS, DTR/DSR/DCD, RI) and there is also hardware support of XON/XOFF.

UCAB232 supports Baud rates from 300 Bd to 250 kBaud (guaranteed) / 500 kBaud (typ.).

UCAB232 is powered by USB, no external power supply is necessary. Low power USB Suspend mode is available.

USB 1.1 (2.0 compatible), Full speed mode is supported. Buffer size is 384 byte (Serial to USB) and 128 byte (USB to Serial), respectively. User can program his/her own VID/PID and text identification for OEM product to UCAB232's EEPROM.

Drivers are freely available on Internet, supported systems are Windows 98SE/2K/ME/XP/ WIN 10 / WIN 11, Mac OS8/OS9/OS X and Linux release 2.40+.