MCP2120/MCP2150 USER鈥橲 GUIDE
2.5 PC Requirements
The PC used has three main requirements. These are:
1. Standard Serial Port.
2. Terminal Emulation Program.
3. IrDA standard driver installed, which treats the IR port as a virtual serial
port.
A non-legacy-free Intel compatible model with Windows 9x/2000 Operating
System (OS) would meet these requirements. The Windows OS includes a
Terminal Emulation program called Hyperterminal. Section 3.5 shows
instructions to configure Hyperterminal and demonstrate the Developer鈥檚
Boards.
Note 1:
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.
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