It's probably important to add that I am a hobbyist doing this on a level with just enough information to make me dangerous so I may be overlooking or not understanding some things that are probably obvious to others.
In terms of converting it, I am not sure its relevant if I am just using the top part of the board to access the pins? I am not powering it through the USB but rather letting the power from the arduino board run through it as the mounting fixture on this evaluation board makes it easy to access the pins (its a surface mount and impossible to work with otherwise).
I attached the manual that came with it.
UG-395.pdf (631 KB)