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FireWire (IEEE 1394): Overview Details Name: firewire Created: 25-Sep-2001 10:15:02 Updated: 01-Oct-2008 08:57:30 CVS: browse Other project properties Category :: Communication controller Standard :: Wishbone compliant core Development status :: Planning Project maintainers Kris Bahnsen Jim Statistics view Description FireWire, Apple's implementation of IEEE 1394 protocol, is a high performance serial bus protocol to provide easy-to-use, low-cost, high-speed communications. Click here for a good collection of links to IEEE 1394 documents. The goals of the FireWire project is to provide IEEE 1394 and IEEE 1394a-2000 compliant Link Layer cores: Link core and Host Controller core. The project will also include firmware for Transaction Layer and Serial Bus Management Layer. Status Developing test bench/test plan for the link controller RTL coding in Verilog Revising "Link Core Specification" 03/03/2002: Checked in the link request block verilog file link_req.v 1.1 11/11/2001: Checked in "Link Core Specification Rev 0.1" 25/10/2001: Finished reading FireWire related specs and datasheets. 30/06/2001: Released initial FireWire homepage. Project plan FireWire homepage setup FireWire protocol research FireWire specification documentation <==== RTL coding in Verilog <==== Test bench development and verification <==== Synthesis and P&R targeting Altera and Xilinx FPGA's Timing verification FireWire cores validation on hardware if possible FireWire cores release