FireBoardBlue-e™ 1394a PCI Express adapter technical specifications

FireBoardBlue-e™ 1394a OHCI PCI Express adapter technical specifications

FireboardBlue-e™ is an IEEE-1394 OHCI PCI Express, two port, single chip host adapter board.

FireboardBlue-e™ Host Adapter brings high-performance IEEE-1394 technology to PCI Express systems. Based on the Texas Instruments XIO2200A, a PCI Express to PCI Bus Translation Bridge with 1394a OHCI and Two-Port PHY provides high performance serial connectivity. The XIO2200A is capable of transferring data between the PCI Express x1 bus and the 1394 bus at 100Mbits/sec, 200Mbits/sec, and 400Mbits/sec. FireboardBlue-e™ provides two IEEE 1394a‑2000 Fully Compliant Cable Ports.

FEATURES

Integrated Physical Layer

Two IEEE-1394a Compliant Cable Ports with speeds up to 400 Mbps.
Cable ports monitor line conditions for active connection to remote node.
Cable power presence monitoring.

Embedded 1394 Link Core

Fully Compliant With Provisions of IEEE Std 1394-1995 for a High-Performance Serial Bus and IEEE Std 1394a-2000
Fully Compliant with 1394 Open Host Controller Interface Specification, Revision 1.1
Full IEEE Std 1394a−2000 Support Includes: Connection Debounce, Arbitrated Short Reset, Multispeed Concatenation, Arbitration Acceleration, Fly-by Concatenation, and Port Disable/Suspend/Resume

PCI Express

Full x1 PCI Express Throughput.
Fully Compliant with PCI Express to PCI/PCI-X Bridge Specification, Revision 1.0.
Fully Compliant with PCI Express Base Specification, Revision 1.0a.

Configuration Serial EEPROM

Low Power Dissipation Circuitry

External power (+12V) connector

All FireboardBlue-e™ power for the XIO2200A and any bus power provided to the 1394 connectors are provided or derived from the standard voltages provided on the PCI-Express connector. However due to the limited availability of 12-V current (for 1394 bus power) an option has been provided to power 12-V rail from an external 4-pin floppy drive connector if using bus-powered 1394a devices which require more than the 500 mA that can be drawn (by specification) from the PCI Express x1 Connector.

Operating Voltage

12V DC - CAUTION: additional power supply voltage on the Firewire bus should be equal to 12V

FCC / CE Compatibility and EMI, EMC testing

FireboardBlue-e™ has successfully passed the EN 55022 (Emissions Environment) and EN 55024 (Immunity Environment) EMI test procedures. Subsequently, this product is fully CE compliant and assigned with the CE mark. Moreover the board is FCC compliant.

R : Required, T : Tested

Environmental Compliances

RoHS Compliant
WEEE Compliant

R	T	Test Description	Standard
X	X	Conducted emissions	EN 55022
X	X	Radiated emissions	EN 55022
X	X	Electrostatic discharges	EN 61000-4-2
X	X	Radiated E.M. fields	EN 61000-4-3
X	X	Fast transient burst (EFT)	EN 61000-4-4