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Re:Reverse Engineer the BL602 WiFi Driver by SAI_Peregrinus on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @03:47PM (#27765049)
Lots of SoCs start by licensing (or already having) an existing MCU or CPU core and adding a bunch more peripherals. They didn't need the die area, so they left the IR peripheral in.
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Re:Reverse Engineer the BL602 WiFi Driver by RF_Savage on Thursday July 08, 2021 @01:32AM (#27768729)
Could also be that they figured somebody might want to make an IR to wifi bridge solution. Or maybe somebody might make some RGB light strip with both local IR control and app control via wifi or bluetooth? It does make sense and IR receiver is a very simple peripheral.
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