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MCP2120/MCP2150 USER’S GUIDE

DS51246A-page 20

 2001 Microchip Technology Inc.

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’s

Boards.

Note 1: Windows® 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’s Board using the appro-

priate Windows 2000 driver.

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