Hi to all, I was going through the user manual of cortex-M3's LM3S1635. www.luminarymicro.com/.../LM3S1635.html. From that manual, Three fully programmable 16C550-type UARTs with IrDA support . So then i went Wikipedia to search about IrDA. It says that its an infrared protocol for up to few meters distance wireless communication.
But i dont know whats the use of IrDA in UART protocol and how we can use that IrDA visibly? whats the advantage over normal UART in Embedded system? since IrDA is a half duplex protocol, why we need to implement it on UART? why only on UART? Few examples pls and some clear details. To increase the speed of tx and RX data? Where else we are using that feature and for what?