Firewire System Architecture, Second Edition (IEEE 1394a) (2nd ed.)

The FireWire (IEEE 1394) standard for high-speed serial bus communications has come to the forefront as an important technology supporting today's emerging data-intensive applications. FireWire System Architecture provides an in-depth description of the IEEE 1394a standard including the cable environment, arbitration enhancements, improvements in the bus timing, new PHY register definition and port interface enhancements to support suspend/resume and port disable. The book also describes the var