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how to interface an 8051 to an RF transmitter ?

I need to transmit a string of message between two Radio frequency transmitter. The message will be stored a microcontroller (e.g. 8051). How to go about writing a program for it and how to interface between the micrcontroller and the transmitters. I am still an amauteur when comes to embeded programming. Any source code or info on this ?

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  • OK, I don't know if we're talking about the same thing here. I'm talking about a Radio Frequency transceiver interfaced to a 8051 type microcontroller, not infra-red transceiver. The protocols of these two differ a lot.

    If you're using RF transceivers, it's by far the most reliable, and easiest to use the microcontroller's UART. You simply use asynchronous serial data transmission, and the transmitter converts it to RF signals. The inverse of this is done at the other end, and the data received at the other end is the same as that which is transmitted.

    I KNOW this because I did it like this several times, and it worked. If you look at the big picture, this is a datacomms setup (only difference in OSI physical layer) , and the medium is just a pair of RF transceivers, instead of twisted pair. Infrared is something different, but if you have a serial to IRDA converter, you can use infrared in the same way.

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  • OK, I don't know if we're talking about the same thing here. I'm talking about a Radio Frequency transceiver interfaced to a 8051 type microcontroller, not infra-red transceiver. The protocols of these two differ a lot.

    If you're using RF transceivers, it's by far the most reliable, and easiest to use the microcontroller's UART. You simply use asynchronous serial data transmission, and the transmitter converts it to RF signals. The inverse of this is done at the other end, and the data received at the other end is the same as that which is transmitted.

    I KNOW this because I did it like this several times, and it worked. If you look at the big picture, this is a datacomms setup (only difference in OSI physical layer) , and the medium is just a pair of RF transceivers, instead of twisted pair. Infrared is something different, but if you have a serial to IRDA converter, you can use infrared in the same way.

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