1394 Interface

3 Day Course

This course includes both the 1394a and 1394b protocols and the SBP-2 and 61883/AVC mappings. Power management has been updated to the latest specifications. During this expanded seminar, expect to investigate the bits and bytes of the transactions, CSR's and Configuration ROM as well as the DC levels of DS encoding, the scrambler and 8b/10b encoding. PHY, Link and PHY - Link interface is also covered in-depth. This course is especially applicable for those whose job or interests are in consumer electronics or computer storage products interacting in the user friendly manner of 1394; also called Firewire^TM or I.Link^TM.

The course assumes no specific knowledge of drives or storage interfaces, but a general familiarity will be helpful.

Demonstrations have been added to the KnowledgeTek IEEE-1394 course that demonstrate bus configuration, device initialization and asynchronous and isochronous operations. The demo's use the Data Transit Bus Doctor protocol analyzer to capture each demonstration and the to display it on the projection screen so all students can see the actual "real-world" operations. A discussion of the capture, highlighting the important concepts, ensures that learning is enhanced.

Introduction
Background
Serial Bus Concept
Other Interfaces

Asynchronous Operations
Read, Write, and Lock
Coherence Problem
Addressing
Packet Formats
Busy Retry Management

Control and Status Registers
IEEE 1212
Core Registers
Serial Bus Registers
Configuration ROM

SCSI and ATA on 1394
Serial Bus Protocol (SBP-2)
Log-in
ORBs
ATA-1394 Bridges

Physical Characteristics
Cable Configurations
Arbitration and Fairness
Data-Strobe Encoding

Configuration
Bus Initialization
Tree and Self Identity
Cycle Master Starts
IRM Starts
Bus Manager Starts
Building Topology Map

Isochronous Operations
Asynchronous vs. Isochronous
Cycle Control
Concatenated Subactions
Packet Formats
Speed vs. Packet Size

Bus Management
Manager Selection and Responsibilities
Gap Timing

1394b
8b/10b Encoding
Arbitration Enhancements
Higher Speeds
Greater Distance
New Connectors

Video
61883 Foundation
FCP
VCR
Camera
Disks
Descriptor Blocks

Wading Through the Specifications

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