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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: TSB82AA2 and TSB81BA3
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 3 August 2005
FireWire chipset takes drivers onboard
Texas Instruments and Unibrain are working to provide a turnkey 1394b (FireWire) development kit for use in a variety of peripheral and motherboard applications
TI has licensed Unibrain's ubCore version 4.0 FireWire driver suite that will be bundled with TI's 1394b chipset (TSB82AA2 and TSB81BA3). 'Software availability and support for 1394b has been one of the key barriers to rapid market adoption of this high-performance serial bus, and we have now eliminated that barrier', said Zephra Freeman, Marketing Manager, PC Connectivity, TI.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 3 August 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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'To support the growing demand for 1394b and to ensure interoperability, TI is making these drivers available at no charge to our customers'.
'We are working very closely with TI and Unibrain to find creative ways to further accelerate the adoption of 1394 for peripheral products as well as motherboards', said James Snider, Executive Director of the 1394 Trade Association.
'With the upcoming release of 1394c (1394 and Ethernet combined) and wireless 1394, we are anticipating large demand for 1394 based products'.
The Unibrain driver stack, already in use by major motherboard manufacturers, is a set of low-level drivers with a top-down layered structure that provides the physical interface to various 1394 devices.
It includes the following unique advantageous features: full and native 1394b support at 800Mbit/s; full 1394b Cat5 (100Mbit/s) and POF (200Mbit/s) support; complete 1394a and 1394b SBP2 disk support; and complete 1394a and 1394b IIDC camera support.
The ubCore combined with FireAPI (Unibrain's 1394 Development Toolkit), provides software developers a powerful set of functions and tools, in kernel or user mode, to help integrate 1394 technology into products.
'Unibrain is excited to work with the industry leader in interface technologies to deliver a truly complete hardware and software solution for the 1394b protocol', said George Zachopoulos, Managing Director of Unibrain.
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