Product Description Detailed spec

FireBoard800-e™ V.2 1394b OHCI PCI-Express adapter

Fireboard800-e™ Host Adapter brings high-performance IEEE-1394b technology to PCI Express systems. Based on the LSI FW643 PCI Express® 1394b Host Controller with integrated Link and PHY, provides high performance serial connectivity. The FW643 is capable of transferring data between the PCI Express x1 bus and the 1394 bus at 100Mbits/sec, 200Mbits/sec, 400Mbits/sec and 800Mbits/sec. Fireboard800-e™ provides three IEEE 1394b Fully Compliant Cable Ports.

OSPECIFICATIONS

Open Host Controller Interface (OHCI)

  • Enhanced with the 1394 OHCI 1.2 draft specification for 1394b Phy full operational compliance.
  • OHCI 1.0 backwards compatible.
  • Isochronous receive dual-buffer mode.
  • Supports enhanced isochronous transmit skip/overflow.
  • Enhanced CSR (configuration status register) implementation.
  • Autonomous configuration ROM update.
  • Enhanced power management support.
  • Enhanced self-ID protocol including selfIDComplete2 event.
  • Enhanced FIFO characteristics:
    • 8 Kbyte isochronous transmit FIFO.
    • 4 Kbyte asynchronous transmit FIFO.
    • 8 Kbyte isochronous receive FIFO.
    • 8 Kbyte asynchronous receive FIFO.
  • Dedicated asynchronous and isochronous descriptor-based DMA engines.
  • Eight isochronous transmit contexts.
  • Eight isochronous receive contexts.
  • Prefetches isochronous transmit data.
  • Supports posted write transactions.
  • Supports parallel processing of incoming physical read and write requests.
  • Allows multiple outstanding requests at DMAs.
  • Segments transfers into PCI Express-sized requests.

  • 1394b integrated Bilingual PHY and Link

    • Cycle master and isochronous resource manager capable.
    • Supports 1394a-2000 and 1394b acceleration features.
    • Fully supports provisions of IEEE 1394a-2000 and 1394-1995 standard for high-performance serial bus.
    • Supports registers to indicate power class modes.
    • Supports arbitrated short bus reset to improve utilization of the bus.
    • Supports ack-accelerated arbitration and fly-by concatenation.
    • Supports multispeed packet concatenation.
    • Supports Phy pinging and remote Phy access packets.
    • Fully supports port disable/suspend/resume.
    • Supports Phy-link interface initialization and reset.
    • Fully interoperable with Firewire™ and i.LINK® implementation of IEEE 1394-1995.

    PCI Express

    • Full compliance with PCI Express revision 1.1.
    • Single lane (x1) architecture.
    • Multiple virtual channel (VC0 and VC1) support for differentiating 1394 isochronous traffic.
    • Supports eight user-programmable traffic classes.
    • Interrupts via legacy INTx interface or message signaled interrupt (MSI).
    • Supports advanced error reporting (AER).
    • Supports multiple concurrent transactions for optimum bandwidth utilization.
    • Supports 64-bit and 32-bit platforms.
    • Supports active-state power management (ASPM).
    • Integrated 2.5 Gbits/s SerDes for serial data transfer.
    • Supports all power management link and device states: L0, L0s, L1, L2/L3, D0, D1, D2 and D3.
    • Low power consumption in and fast transition out of a low-powered Rx mode.
    • Low power consumption in Tx electrical idle.
    • Supports in-band beacon transmission and side-band WAKE_N signaling mechanism.
    • Both Tx and Rx termination impedances are automatically calibrated using an external reference resistance.
    • Supports Type 0 (endpoint) PCI-compatible configuration space and PCI Express extended configuration space.
    External power (+12V) connector
    All Fireboard800-e™ power for the FW643 controller and any bus power provided to the 1394 connectors are derived from the standard voltages on the PCI-Express connector. However due to the limited availability of 12-V current (for 1394 bus power) an option has been provided to power 12-V rail from an external standard power connector if using bus-powered 1394b devices which require more than the 500 mA that can be drawn (by specification) from the PCI Express x1 Connector.

    Operating Voltage

    12V DC - CAUTION: additional power supply voltage on the Firewire bus should be equal to 12V


    FCC / CE Compatibility and EMI, EMC testing

    Fireboard800-e™ has successfully passed the EN 55022 (Emissions Environment) and EN 55024 (Immunity Environment) EMI test procedures. Subsequently, this product is fully CE compliant and assigned with the CE mark. Moreover the board is FCC compliant.

re-i API SDK™ license: 1719

R : Required, T : Tested

Environmental Compliances

  • RoHS Compliant
  • WEEE Compliant
R T Test Description Standard
X X Conducted emissions EN 55022
X X Radiated emissions EN 55022
X X Electrostatic discharges EN 61000-4-2
X X Radiated E.M. fields EN 61000-4-3
X X Fast transient burst (EFT) EN 61000-4-4