Thanks for the input attila but what i am looking for is that the pic does all the work, encoding and decoding. Thanks Les Attila wrote >There are a couple of Philips IC's TX: SAA3004, RX:SAA3049. Can they be >of interest ? There are other version available as well, but I don't >remember their names. They have built-in keyboard scanning, decoding etc, >etc... > > >Best regards > > >Attila Muhi > > >TeLoRay Systems >