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FireWire (also known as i.Link or IEEE 1394) is a personal computer (and digital audio/digital video) serial bus interface standard, offering high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data services. FireWire has replaced SCSI in many applications due to lower implementation costs and a simplified, more adaptable cabling system.
Almost all modern digital camcorders have included this connection since 1995. Many computers intended for home or professional audio/video use have built-in FireWire ports including all Macintosh, Dell and Sony computers currently produced. FireWire was also an attractive feature on the Apple iPod for several years, permitting new tracks to be uploaded in a few seconds and also for the battery to be recharged concurrently with one cable. However, Apple has eliminated FireWire support in favor of Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 on its newer iPods due to space constraints.
Standards and versions
FireWire was developed by Apple Computer in the early 1990s, after work defining a slower version of the interface by the IEEE 1394 working committee in the 1980s. IEEE proposed the standard as a serial replacement for the SCSI bus. Apple's development was completed in 1995. It is defined in IEEE standard 1394 which is currently a composite of three documents: the original IEEE Std. 1394-1995, the IEEE Std. 1394a-2000 amendment, and the IEEE Std. 1394b-2002 amendment. Sony's implementation of the system is known as i.Link, and uses only the four signal pins, discarding the two pins that provide power to the device in favor of a separate power connector on Sony's i.Link products. More on [ FireWire ]
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1394 High Performance Serial Bus - From Texas Instruments, choose from the list information about 1394.
1394 Newsletter - Applications, standards development, 1394 Trade Association news, new 1394 products, company strategies, price trends, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, procurements, impact of competing technologies, competing standards: USB, and SCSI.
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1394 Printer Working Group - Developing printing standards for the IEEE Std. 1394-1995 High Speed Serial Bus. This new interface standard is being used in state of the art audio, video, and computer applications.
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Apple Developer Connection: Firewire - FireWire speeds up the movement of multimedia data and large files and enables the connection of digital consumer products, including digital camcorders, digital video tapes, digital video disks, set-top boxes, and music systems, directly to a personal computer.
EDN Access - Firewire unleashes the power of digital video. Dated 07/03/97.
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IEEE 1394 Trade Association - Founded to support the development of computer and consumer electronics systems that can be easily connected with each other via a single serial multimedia link.
Multimedia Applications of IEEE 1394 - Written by Lawrence A. Rowe at U.C. Berkeley.
Quick Overview of IEEE 1394 - By providing an inexpensive non-proprietary high-speed method of interconnecting digital devices, a truly universal I/O connection has been created, from Skipstones site.
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