It's Male Serial to USB cable (9 pin com port to USB A male) that allows your PC to connect RS-232 serial devices and programs that communicate through COM ports (NOT 15 pin-VGA-Monitor-Cable)FT232RL USB serial adapter is designed for connecting serial devices such as DB9 equipped PC router GPS Programming machine barcode scanner label writer serial modem digital camera card reader palm PC and digital organizer etc 1.5 ft short USB to RS 232 cord for Windows 11 10 8.1 8 7 Mac OS 8 or higher Linux 2.4. 0 and laterFTDI USB to serial cable adapter is built with a high performance quality processor chip (FT232 Chipset) which makes it one of the most reliable com port to usb adapter on the marketSerial DB9 to USB converter with LED light helps you check the connection status easily