IRMS6118/IRMT6118
115 Kb/s Infrared Data Transceiver
Appnote 84
Introduction
Receiver Power Supply
The IRMS6118/IRMT6118 is a fully integrated 115 Kb/s optical
transceiver module designed to meet the IrDA physical layer
specification. The following application note describes specific
attributes of how the IRMS6118/IRMT6118 functions.
Since the receiver has good power supply rejection and the
receiver output is internally slew rate limited, receiver supply
decoupling is not critical. When driving a typical load of 15 pF,
as little as 0.05 µF of receiver power supply decoupling is nec-
essary and only needs to be within a few centimeters of the
device. Typically, existing board power supply decoupling will
be adequate. Because of the excellent ripple rejection, the
device can be operated from most type of standard power sup-
plies. For example, it will work with 100 kHz switching supplies
Table 1. Input/Output Functional Description (IRMS6118/
IRMT6118)
Pin # Sym. Type
Polarity Function Description
1
IR
LEDA
Input
AC
LED anode. It is required to
connect it to the LED power
of less than 50 mV
ripple or unregulated supplies with less
P–P
supply (V
). An external re-
LED
than 1.0 V
of 120 Hz ripple.
P–P
sistor is required when V
is above 3.3 V.
LED
DC Ambient Light Rejection
2
3
IR
Input
Switch- Internally connected to LED
The IRMS6118/IRMT6118 will handle most DC infrared ambi-
ents except direct sunlight. If the ambient light DC current sur-
rounding the module is exceeding the capability of ambient
light rejection, the RxD output will go low for more than 100 µs.
This information may be used to warn the user that the ambient
light is excessive. Due to the increasing shot noise of the pho-
todiode at high DC ambients the receiver sensitivity decreases
by up to 4X to prevent spurious noise hits. This equates to halv-
ing the receive range at maximum DC ambients (typically a rare
event).
LEDC
ing DC
cathode. No external connec-
tion needed unless used to
drive additional LED.
TxD
Input/
TTL
Active
high
LED driver. This input is ca-
pacitively coupled to limit
transmit pulse width to no
more than about 70 µs.
4
5
RxD Output/ Active
The output indicates received
serial data. It is a CMOS driver
providing rail to rail operation.
TTL
low
Automatic Gain Control (AGC)
SD
Input
Active
high
Inserting this pin to V caus-
CC
es the device to shutdown
with a maximum current drain
of less than 1.0 µA, and it will
disable transmitter input and
tri-state receiver output.
The AGC attack response of the IRMS6118/IRMT6118 is
designed to give good first pulse response after complete AGC
decay. The AGC decay response is sufficiently slow to provide
adequate AGC noise immunity at 9.6 Kb/s during typical worse
case data (no pulses for 9 bit intervals). Typically AGC recovery
from a strong signal (Near-Far Latency) takes about 2.5 ms, but
if necessary, faster AGC recovery can be obtained by Shut
Down cycling; that is, shutting down the IrDT for at least 1.0 µs
and powering it back up again. The IRMS6118/IRMT6118 is
designed to reset the AGC on shutdown and includes circuits
which allow for fast power up DC ambient stabilization.
6
Receiver Positive Receiver power supply 2.4 V
power
supply
V
CC
power
supply
to 5.5 V. Place a typical value
of 0.1 µF ceramic bypass ca-
pacitor as close as possible to
this pin.
7
8
GND Ground
(power)
—
—
Internally grounded.
GND Ground
(power)
Connect to power supply
ground.
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