The MCP2120 Infrared Encoder/Decoder is the first lowcost, easy-to-use infrared peripheral from a company that also has a broad range of microcontrollers and other related products specifically targeted for embedded systems. Utilizing this device and an off-the-shelf infrared transceiver, Microchip customers will now be able to add wireless communication capability to their designs. The MCP2120 enables customers to add infrared wireless communication capability to their embedded systems by a simple connection to a micro-controller UART peripheral on one end and an infrared transceiver at the other end. If interoperability with other infrared enabled devices is required in your design, Microchip again has your solution. The r evolutionar y MCP2150 Infrar ed Communications Controller supporting the IrDA Standard is simply the smallest, simplest, most economical way of adding IrDA cor dless connectivity to embedded applications. In the past, supporting the complex IrDA Standard protocol stack on the host microcontroller required a large amount of system resources and protocol stack knowledge. The MCP2150 of f-loads these requirements to a peripheral device, freeing up the system designer to focus on the design, not the communication with the outside world. Applications for these infrared communication products include application-specific PCs and specialty peripherals, and wireless handheld data acquisition systems in the industrial market, pagers and modems in the communications market, POS terminals, printers and digital cameras in the consumer market, and fleet management systems in the automotive market. Any application where a cost-effective method of transferring data without a cable is the desired, Microchip has the solution.