FireWire 800 1394b Host Adapter

FWBX2-PCI6402

Dual Channel 4 port OHCI compliant IEEE 1394b FireWire 800 to PCI Card Host Adapter featuring Ti TSB82AA2B IEEE 1394 Host Controller

Dual Channel 4 port OHCI compliant IEEE 1394b FireWire 800 to PCI Card Host Adapter featuring Ti TSB82AA2B IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Highlights
  • 64-bit (33/66MHz) PCI Host interface
  • Dual OHCI 1.1 compliant IEEE 1394b to PCI-64bit/33MHz host controller
  • Bilingual 9pin connector with screw lock


Introduction

FWBx2-PCI6402 is a dual OHCI 1.1 compliant IEEE 1394b to PCI-64bit host adapter.

FWBx2-PCI6402 is designed with two key components.

  • PCI-to-PCI bridge (64bit/66Mhz).
  • Texas Instruments TSB82AA2B --- IEEE 1394b OHCI-Lynx Controller.
  • Texas Instruments TSB81BA3D --- IEEE 1394b 3-port Cable Transceiver/Arbiter.

The PCI-to-PCI bridge takes advantages of the 266MB/s burst rate of primary PCI bus and the secondary PCI bus interface is connected to two IEEE 1394b OHCI-Lynx host controllers. This solution provides full PCI and dual 1394b functionality and performance.

FWBx2-PCI6402 delivers the performance and connectivity required for servers and I/O demanding applications such as CD-ROM servers, Video-On-Demand, database servers, workstations, high-end desktops, software RAID sub systems, and image systems. On a single PCI slot, connecting up to 126 devices. It transfers data rate up to 100 MBytes/second per independent channel and takes advantages of the 266MB/s burst rate of PCI bus to provide unmatched I/O performance.



Technical Specifications

PCI:
  • PCI Local Bus Specification Rev:2.3 support
  • High speed PCI buffer supports 3.3V signaling with 5V input signal tolerance
  • Asynchronous design supports standard 66MHz to 33MHz and 33MHz secondary port speed conversion
  • Flow-Through 0 wait state burst up to 4K bytes for optimal large volume data transfer
  • Supports up to 4 simultaneous posted write transactions and 4 simultaneous Delayed transactions in each direction
  • Provides 1K Bytes of buffering
    • 256 byte upstream posted write buffer
    • 256 byte downstream posted write buffer
    • 256 byte upstream read data buffer
    • 256 byte downstream read data buffer
  • PCI Bus Power Management Interface r1.1 Compliant
IEEE 1394 Std Support:
  • Fully Supports Provisions of IEEE P1394b Revision 1.33+ at 1-Gigabit Signaling Rates
  • Fully Supports Provisions of IEEE 1394a.2000 and 1394.1995 Standard for High Performance Serial Bus
  • Fully Interoperable With Firewire., i.LINK., and SB1394., Implementation of IEEE Std 1394
1394 Bus Transfer Rate:
  • Provides two IEEE Std 1394b-2002 fully compliant cable ports at 100/200/400/800 megabits per second (Mbits/s).
Number of Ports:
  • Four Bilingual P1394b Cable Ports (Two Bilingual P1394b Cable Ports per OHCI)
  • Bilingual 9pin Connector with Screw Holes for Jackscrew Type Plug Cable
Bus Power Connector:

Big IDE 4-pin DC Power Connector



Computer Platfrom
  • PC equipped with 64-bit PCI Slot


Operating System Requirements
  • Windows 98 SE, ME
  • Windows 2000, XP, 2003 , 7
  • MacOS X or higher
  • Linux 2.6.X


Document Download
FWBX2-PCI6402