Re: [avr-chat] will an avr be fast enough...

[Bob Paddock]

On Friday 03 June 2005 11:48 am, Alan Kilian wrote:

>     I went to digikey.com and searched for IRDA and found that
>     microchip.com makes IRDA control ICs, so I looked there. I quickly
>     found an application note "Selecting an MCP21XX Device for IrDA®
>     Applications"

>       The IrDA standard SIR specification has a maximum
>       baud rate of 115.2 Kbaud.

>     So it looks like standard IRDA can't even come close to 4.8 megabits
>     per second.

Not in SIR, look at IrDA FIR for those speeds.

Digikey sells a the Zilog Optics and the Zilog Enhanced! parts that will work
with the IrDA 1/16th bit rate of the optics directly.  Wish some of the AVR's 
would do that.


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