The maximum rate for standard SIR(Serial IrDA) is 115,200

Kevin E. Dodd
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Theo Markettos [SMTP:marketto@PRL.RESEARCH.PHILIPS.COM]
Sent:   Friday, May 08, 1998 1:41 AM
To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject:        Re: IRDA ?? How to?

Havard Torring wrote:
>
> To implement a standard RS232 interface over a IRDA link is simple.
> Although this means that you will drop all tha nasty SW layers associated
> with IRDA, but if you don't care,...
>
> Use the following setup:
>
> PIC <---> TOIM3232 <--->TFDS3000
>
> Both circuits from Temic.

IIRC, the Temic RS232<->IrDA translator needs the UART's clock as well as the
serial data stream.  Is it possible to extract this from either a hardware
USART or software bit-bang based PIC?  Since this is 16x the data rate, what
is the maximum speed that can be reached with this method?

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Theo Markettos                  marketto@prl.research.philips.com
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