The board that you indicated uses the FTDI USB chip for the UART chip; ATMega168 itself does not have a USB controller. The UART side of the FTDI chip is connected to the UART ATMX168 RXD / TXD pins. So, in terms of Arduino code, you are just talking to a serial port controlled by UART.
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