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IrDA standard port (Palm Pilot,
cell phone, ...)
The Host controller for each board can be either a Personal Computer (PC) or
another system connected to the Host header. The PC operating system (OS)
may be any desired OS that has a terminal emulation program which can
connect to the serial port and can treat the IR port as a virtual serial port. For
our tutorial, we will use the Windows 9x OS.
Note 1:
Windows NT
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4.x (and lower) does not support the IrDA standard
functionality. Third Party programs exist, but are not supported or
recommended by Microsoft, so are also not recommended by
Microchip.
2:
Windows
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2000 does support the IrDA standard, but does not treat
the IR port as a virtual serial port. This means that you cannot
access the IR port as a serial port. This causes issues with some
terminal emulation programs, such as Hyperterminal. Windows
2000 considers the IrDA port to be a network device. Applications
that can access a network service through a network protocol (i.e.
TCP/IP) can use the MCP2120 Developer鈥檚 Board using the appro-
priate Windows 2000 driver.
Palm is a trademark of Palm, Inc.
Windows NT and Windows 2000 are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
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2001 Microchip Technology Inc.
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