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The common problem faced by many of the IrDA-enabled systems manufacturers is the long IrDA test bottleneck on the production line. They usually use the commercially available IrDA-compliant application software or even the non-IrDA compatible file transfer software. To shorten the test time, they use very short test file. The problem is long test time (~1 minute), no easy reading and unreliable test of error rate at different speeds, no parameter re- setting by QA engineer, no isolation of send or receive problem, no automatic recording of test results. Recently, there are specific IrDA system hardware test software available to solve all these critical problem. Example is ACTiSYS's ACT-IR900SW which requires 5~10 sec. per test system to automaticall print and record the error rates. It has special test patterns to exercise stress test on IrDA hardware. It can even test both IrDA and ASK modes. Its extension, IR9000SW will test IrDA-1.1 enabled system hardware and is being tested on the newly available IrDA-1.1 adapters.