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SIR
(Serial InfraRed) The physical protocol of the IrDA wireless transmission standard. See IrDA.
Sir
1. a title of honour placed before the name of a knight or baronet
2. Archaic a title placed before the name of a figure from ancient history

1.(language)SIR - An early system on the IBM 650.

[Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959].
2.(standard)SIR - Serial Infrared. An infrared standard from IrDA, part of IrDA Data. SIR supports asynchronous communications at 9600 bps - 115.2 Kbps, at a distance of up to 1 metre.



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The STIR4220 Very Fast Infrared (VFIR) Controller (16 Million bits per second, mbps), STIR4210 Fast Infrared (FIR) Controller (4 mbps), and STIR4116 Serial Infrared (SIR) Controller are pin compatible devices that enable manufacturers to create a family of USB 2.
NYSE:A) today announced the industry's smallest encoder-decoder (EnDec) chip for use in mobile phones and many other applications that require serial infrared (SIR) connectivity.
0V tolerant) in either ISA or LPC Mode -- X-Bus Interface (LPC Mode only), which can interface to external I/O devices that have an 8-bit data bus and to standard ISA memory devices, up to 2MB, which can serve as BIOS flash -- Support for a serial infrared interface that complies with IrDA v1.
 
 
 
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