Having previously used the Philips SAA3008/SAA3049 IR Remote Encoder/Decoder
pair on an old product I intended to use them for a new PIC project
(F874/877). I actually have a working system at the moment but unfortunately
these chips are soon to be deleted so I desperately need replacements or an
alternative method.

I need the capability to pass both address and data through to the PIC so
that I can detect and process wanted and unwanted addresses.  This will
allow either individual addressing or a broadcast mode using a single
address.  Up to 15 commands with up to 9 unique addresses are required.

Other IR remote decoders e.g. Holtek seem to only read hard wired or DIP
switch selected addresses and so are not suitable.  The PIC is pretty busy
so although there is time to detect the incoming parallel data/address from
a decoder and process the result, real time decoding of the IR serial data
directly will not really be possible.

Can anybody help and perhaps suggest:

1. Alternative chips to the Philips pair.

2. An alternative implementation, maybe using other PICs to emulate the
chips.

3. If 2. point me in the direction of suitable code for both TX and RX since
the project timescale is extremely short to develop such a system from
scratch.

TIA

David