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Chapter 9 - IrDA Communication Tool / About the IrDA Communication Tool

Overview

The Newton IrDA tool is a communication tool implementation of the Infrared Data Association's standard for infrared communication. The IrDA standard consists of a hardware serial infrared interface specification (SIR), a link access protocol specification (IrLAP), a link management multiplexer protocol specification (IrLMP), a transport protocol specification (IrTinyTP), and other protocol layers.

The Newton IrDA tool minimally implements the IrLMP and IrLAP protocols and communicates with a serial driver that implements the SIR protocol.