On 03/06/2011 16:17, Sean Breheny wrote:
> What is your opinion? Is IRDA going to be around for at least 5 more
> years or is it disappearing quickly?
>

I think it has obviously become far less popular, with the advent of=20
bluetooth and stuff.
However, I don't think it will disappear altogether for quite some time,=20
there are still plenty of applications that are more suited to an easily=20
implemented, cheap, line of sight solution (for which RF would be overkill)
Even if it did disappear, as noted I'm sure you could quite easily=20
conjure up your own. I doubt very much this would be needed though - I=20
know it's not quite the same , but look at e.g. RS232, USB, SPI, I2C=20
etc, has been around for ages but it is still reasonably common and ICs=20
available.
Hard to be certain, but I'm betting on it being good for a while (as=20
long as remotes use the technology anyway..)
I think I would go for it.


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