Can't say I know much about that, from what I remember when I looked at them it was just an ASIC, some memory for buffer and USB chip which goes to the PC
As an alternative, you could also use Codewarrior with a BBA instead of the USB interface. The one in the picture is mine, by the way.
http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/404092P1020545.jpg Pic of the bootmenu (console start without disc). I only own the "bba config disc" on a nr-disc (uploaded few month ago in another post) to connect with the BBA.