Fireboard-Blue™ 1394a PCI adapter

Fireboard-Blue™ is a fast and reliable digital interface card for all external FireWire-enabled devices. Now, Digital Cameras, Hard Drives, CD/DVD drives and Digital Camcorders can be connected to Fireboard-Blue™ in a snap.

Fireboard-Blue™ is a 3-port, single chip, OHCI-compliant 1394/FireWire® host adapter for PC systems that provides plug 'n' play connectivity for FireWire® devices and peripherals.

OS Supported : Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista & 64 bit XP/2003/Vista Mac OS 9.x/10.x Linux Part numbers: Fireboard-Blue bulk: 1203 Retail Kit with 2m 1394a 6pin to 6pin cable: 1205 Fireboard-Blue with hardware Fire-i / Fire-i API™ SDK license: 1135 Fireboard-Blue with hardware FireAPI™ SDK license: 1705 Accessory: The metallic bracket of Fireboard-Blue can be changed to a low profile size corresponding to 2U height (see image below, right). Low Profile Accessory  Part number: 1222 (ordered separately)
Fireboard-Blue™
Unibrain’s Fireboard-Blue™ offers the following features: Texas Instruments TSB43AB23, integrated 1394 PHY/Link Controller 3 FireWire ports OHCI compliant/Compatible with any FireWire device or peripheral 400Mbps - up to 50MB/sec data rates Internal power connector Supports repeater functionality Supports 100, 200 and 400 Mbps throughput Enabling data transfer of real time copying for large files using FireNet™ is: Read: 23 Mbps / Write: 25 Mbps Due to its 4 isochronous transmit/receive contexts the Fireboard Blue™ host adapter has the exceptional feature to simultaneously control and display up to 4 FireWire digital cameras
Fireboard-Blue™ with Low Profile Bracket

Firewire Networking Solution

Fireboard-Blue™ is suitable for network applications. Using Unibrain’s FireNet™ Software you can connect two or more PC’s in a peer-to-peer Network at 400Mbps.

External Hard Drive

You can connect a multiple array of external FireWire devices such as CD-R/W or DVD drives easily. Just plug-in any SBP2 FireWire External Hard Drive to the installed Fireboard-Blue™ adapter and immediately add storage to your PC.
Fireboard-Blue has been thoroughly tested to operate seamlessly with a big range of External FireWire Hard Drives as well as any third party external storage devices.

Digital Cameras

Fireboard-Blue can connect up to 4 Digital Cameras in a peer-to-peer topology. Using Unibrain’s Fire-i™ Software you can connect up to 4 Fire-i™ cameras and simultaneously control and display all of them, thus providing the perfect monitoring home/office solution.

Digital Video

Simply connect any DV Camcorder to your PC via Unibrain Fireboard-Blue PCI Host Adapter. Capture, produce and share your digital video, with any digital video application from your PC.
Unibrain’s DV solution (FireDV™) is also based on the Fireboard-Blue adapter.