At 04:41 PM 03/24/2000 +0800, you wrote:
>I recall bout 3 years back seeing an eval board for HP's IrDA modules done
>by Parallex. Far as i can tell there was a PIC in there doing all the work
>getting data to and from a PC. Was i wrong or is the high speed IrDA's too
>much work for a PIC?
>
>Terry
>

I would say definitely too much work. I tried to run a 400 Ks/s 12-bit
serial A/D off a 20 Mhz PIC, and the best rate I could ever get was a
little over 300 Ks/s, no matter what I did. Involved 2 successive 8-bit
SPI transfers, plus read/store/indexing/looping/etc.

best regards,
- Dan Michaels
Oricom Technologies
http://www.sni.net/~oricom
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