Agilent Technologies Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) announced its new fast infrared (FIR) transceiver for mobile phones, personal digital assistants and digital cameras, the HSDL-3220, which offers a height of only 2.5mm, the lowest profile of any medium infrared (MIR) or FIR transceiver on the market, and greater flexibility when designing clamshell and ultra-slim handsets.
The HSDL-3220 transceiver supports the Infrared Data Association low-power specification and operates at transmission speeds ranging from 9.6kb/s to 4.0Mb/s. It is capable of operating with logic levels as low as 1.8V, and from power sources ranging from 2.7V to 3.6V. The transceiver works with low-power microprocessor chipsets and ASICs that operate at 1.8V or greater signal levels, and in mobile products operating from a single lithium-ion cell. The device consumes only 70µA in shutdown mode. Its small footprint package of 2.5mm x 8mm x 3mm is pin-compatible with the Agilent HSDL-3211 1.15 Mb/s MIR transceiver.
The Agilent HSDL-3220 infrared transceiver is priced under $2.00 each in moderate volumes and is available now.
