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Praise for the first edition:"Finally, a book on IEEE 1394 that's easy to understand!!! MindShare's FireWire System Architecture: IEEE 1394 provides a consolidated learning tool for 1394 hardware and software, and confirms the statement, '1394's for the fun stuff....'"-Phil Roden, 1394 Digital Design Manager, Texas InstrumentsThe FireWire (IEEE 1394a) standard for high-speed serial bus communications has come to the fore as an important technology supporting today's emerging data-intensive applications.FireWire System Architecture provides an in-depth description of the IEEE 1394a cable environment, based on the 2.0 version of the 1394a standard. Comprehensive, concise, and well-organized, this book details the specification itself and presents the architecture, features, and operations of systems developed with the FireWire bus. Completely up-to-date, this new edition covers all of the changes incorporated into the 2.0 standard, such as arbitration enhancements, improvements in bus reset timing, new PHY register definition, and port interface enhancements to support suspend/resume and port disable. In addition, it provides in-depth information on suspend/resume operation, power distribution, and power management.FireWire System Architecture describes the various hardware and software layers that make up the FireWire serial bus and provides transaction examples to explain and illustrate the relationship between each layer.It explores such essential topics as:The communications modelAsynchronous and isochronous transactionsCables and connectorsThe electrical interfaceAsynchronous and isochronous arbitration, including such enhancements as fly-by arbitration, acceleration control, and priority arbitration servicePackets, including the PHY packet formatSerial bus configuration and managementControl and status registers (CSRs)Configuration ROMPower managementNumerous sample implementations throughout the book demonstrates how theory is put to use in real-world applications.