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September 1, 1998
Two New 1394 Designer Kits Unveiled
New 1394 Link Layer Chips from TI
1394 Stand to Benefit from New CMOS Technology
1394 Developer's Conference Wrap Up
2nd Edition of 1394 Solutions CD-ROM Available
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Two New 1394 Designer Kits Unveiled Texas Instruments continues its leadership in the 1394 industry by offering two new 1394 Designer Kits. These new 1394 kits provide designers a easy way to understand the 1394 technology, layout considerations, and reduce their time to market. The TSBKOHCI403 is the industry's first p1394a compliant host adapter. The PCI based board features the OHCI-Lynx (TSB12LV22) and 400Mbps PHY (TSB41LV03). The kit works with Microsoft Windows(TM) 98 and comes complete with a 1394 cable and documentation. The TSBKPCI403 is also available. The TSBKPCI403 features the PCILynx2 (TSB12LV21B) and 400Mbps PHY (TSB41LV03). The kit comes with TI's Lynxsoft software for Windows 95. Both kits offer a optional isolation build, three 6-pin 1394 ports, fit easily into any PCI slot and are both available for the low price of $275 + shipping & handling. To order either of these new kits, please contact the TI Literature Response Center at (800) 477-8924 and request the above mentioned Designer Kits. New 1394 Link Layer Chips from TI Texas Instruments has announced four new 1394 Link Layer Devices. The four new 1394 link layer interface devices are designated as follows: GP2Lynx (TSB12LV32) for general purpose PC and peripheral equipment applications; PCILynx2 (TSB12LV21B) which will be used in PCI bus-to-1394 applications; TSB12LV01 for high-end networking equipment; and DVLynx (TSB12LV42) which is targeted at consumer electronics products involving digital video. View the complete press release. 1394 Stand to Benefit from New CMOS Technology A new CMOS transceiver technology capable of simultaneously sending and receiving data at speeds up to 2.5 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) was disclosed today by Texas Instruments. Based on breakthrough design improvements including high-speed data recovery techniques and an advanced 0.25-micron CMOS process, the new technology will eventually be used in high-speed serial communications transceivers for IEEE 1394 (FireWire™). View the complete press release. 1394 Developer's Conference Wrap Up The Second Annual 1394 Developer's conference held at the Fairmont Hotel, San Jose from June 29-July 1, 1998 was a great success. More than twice the number of companies were demonstrating their 1394 offerings on the exhibit floor compared to the previous year. TI was the premier sponsor for this event along with Intel. TI 1394 leadership was very evident, not only in the non-TI presentations and demos using TI-1394 silicon, but also our p1394b R&D demonstration. TI demonstrated hot pluggable, 1.6Gbps data transmission over the standard 6-pin 1394 connector. In addition, TI demonstrated Net Meeting (TM) with Windows 98(TM) and TI's 1394 solutions tailored for a Set Top Box application. The mindset of Intel and other leading PC, workstation and peripheral manufacturers was that adoption of 1394 is inevitable. Mark Kristen, Industry Analyst of IN-Stat estimated 450 million units shipping with 1394 by the year 2002. Microsoft's key note included a demo of Windows 98 running on SONY's new 3lb VAIO 505GX with 1394 capability provided by TI's 1394 silicon. Eight engineers from TI made presentations on the engineering and marketing tracks covering a wide range of topics on 1394. View the presentations. 2nd Edition of 1394 Solutions CD-ROM Available Texas Instruments recently released the second edition of their very popular 1394 Solutions CD-ROM. The new edition includes updated product information, software, application reports, and presentations that were not included in the initial CD-ROM. You can order your copy today by calling the Texas Instruments Literature Reponse Center at (800) 477-8924 and requesting literature number: SLLC010A Q: What are the differences between the PCILynx (TSB12LV21A) and the PCILynx2 (TSB12LV21B)? A: The changes to the PCILynx2 included fixes to the documented errata and an increase in the total FIFO size from 1024 bytes to 4096 bytes. The increase in FIFO size resulted in a small change to the programming model for the FIFO size register located at offset 0xA00. The FIFO size on the PCILynx was programmed in units of quadlets, i.e. each FIFO could be programmed from 0 to 255 quadlets, where the sum of the three FIFOs is less than 256 quadlets. With the 4X increase in total FIFO size on the PCILynx2, the base unit for the FIFO size register was changed to 4 quadlets. That is each FIFO can be programmed from 0 to 1020 quadlets, where the sum of the three FIFOs is less than 1024 quadlets.
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