Over the years various articles have appeared in Elektor Electronics about microcontrollers that pick up the pulses from an IR remote control and do something with it.

Unfortunately this capability was not available for the R8C microcontroller until now. That is why the author plunged right in and created this capability, mainly for his own use but also made it available to others who may be interested.

The functionality has been designed in such a way that it can optionally be used with either a Philips (RC5) or Sony remote control.