ubCore™ 1394a -
1394b (Firewire 800) drivers, v. 5.52 (latest
release: August 2008)
ubCore™, is the first and only driver suite that fully
supports the 1394b standard. It is highly recommended by
Texas Instruments as the ideal software companion for
their 1394b chipset.
ubCore™ is a set of low-level drivers with a top-down
layered structure that provides the physical interface
to various 1394 devices and includes the following advantageous features:
- Full 1394b support at 800Mbps.
- Support for future standard speeds (S1600
and S3200).
- Full 1394b CAT5 (100/400 Mbps) and POF (200 Mbps) support.
- Full 1394b GOF support at 800 Mbps speeds.
- Complete 1394a and 1394b SBP2 disk support.
- Complete 1394a and 1394b Networking support via the FireNet™ drivers.
- Complete support of 1394a and 1394b IIDC compliant cameras.
- Comprehensive set of tools and applications.
- Full Plug&Play support for Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista.
- Support for 64 bit Windows Operating Systems (AMD64 and Intel EM64t CPUs).
- Microsoft singed drivers for Windows Vista 32 bit and 64 bit.
- User friendly installation wizard.
ubCore™ combined with FireAPI™ (Unibrain’s 1394
Development Toolkit), provides to the software developer
a powerful set of functions and tools that enables him to integrate 1394 technology
into his product.
ubCore™ drivers come into 2 "flavors" (versions): 'ubCore' and
'ubCore Pro'.
ubCore™ is oriented for end users who want to utilize the full Firewire-800 speed of their 1394b devices (webcams, firewire hard drives, networking) and it is available as a free download, while ubCore
Pro™ is oriented for professional users and
FireAPI™ SDK customers.
ubCore Pro™ is not free; a
FireAPI license is required for it's full features and applications to be activated.
The same license is also required so that applications developed with
FireAPI SDK, will execute in runtime systems.
In the table below you can see the main differences and features of each version:
| Features |
ubCore™ |
ubCore Pro™ |
| Firewire networking Support |
Yes |
Yes |
| IIDC firewire cameras support |
Yes (up to VGA only) |
Yes (all industrial 1394a and 1394b models) |
| SBP2 driver support |
Yes |
Yes |
| 64 bit OS support |
Yes |
Yes |
| Fire-i™ application |
No |
Yes |
| Firewire Bus topology viewer |
No |
Yes |
| Firewire command-line control tool |
No |
Yes |
| IIDC Explorer camera control tool |
No |
Yes |
| DV camcorder support |
No |
No |
Runtime FireAPI & Fire-i API SDK
license (royalty) |
No |
Yes |
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