FireWire

Serial bus architecture for high-speed data transfer

Board and System Interfaces

  • PCI And PCIx
    Bus to connect hardware discrete components on a board. Used to evaluate the latency impact.
  • Enhanced PCI BAE Systems
  • PCIe
    High speed serial bus for fast access to memory and storage. Also works with NVMe
  • RapidIO
    High-performance packet-switched, interconnect technology. Supports Chip-Chip, Board-Board (Backplane), Chassis-Chassis integration
  • IDT Vendor Product
    IDT implementation for wireless base station infrastructure, high performance computing, data centers, server, video, imaging, military and embedded computing
  • FibreChannel
    High-speed network technology (from 1 to 128 Gbps) providing in-order, lossless delivery of raw block data, from computer data storage to servers.
  • NVMe
    Host controller interface to accelerate data transfer between enterprise and solid-state drives across PCIe
  • Firewire
    Serial bus architecture for high-speed data transfer
  • VME
    High speed and high performance bus system with powerful interrupt management and multiprocessor capability
  • VPX
    Switched fabric for cost-effective 10Gb Ethernet and PCI-Express networked systems
  • Spacewire
    SpaceWire utilizes asynchronous communication and allows speeds between 2 Mbit/s and 400 Mbit/s.
  • OpenVPX
    OpenVPXreplaces VME and VXS standards in defense designs.

Quick Explanation

  • Supports the use of routing table
  • Supports bandwidth allocation

Protocol

  • IEEE 1394

Model Link

FireWire

FireWire (IEEE 1394) is an interface standard for a serial bus for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer.Using the VisualSim FireWire library, architects can design next-generation networking system for high-performance systems by conducting early design space exploration of FireWire-based system architecture.

Standards Supported

  • FireWire 400 [100, 200, 400 Mbit/s]
  • FireWire S800 [800 Mbit/s]
  • FireWire S1600 [1.6Gbit/s]
  • FireWire S1600 [1.6Gbit/s]

Features

  • Library is preconfigured to generate network statistics and understand network activities.
  • Package includes Node, Link and Integrated Traffic Generator for quick modelling.
  • Parameters include Start time, Destination node, Transfer type, and Task Size.
  • FireWire is available in wireless, fiber optic, and coaxial versions.

Working and Usage

  • FireWire node block can behave as a root, branch, or leaf node based on its position in the network topology. This parameter can be set for every node.
  • Each node will be assigned with a unique identifier and also can be set to generate either Isochronous or Asynchronous transfers.
  • FireWire Link is a simple delay block that computes link delay based on link type and distance between the nodes.
  • FireWire Configuration block contains Routing Information and Network Bandwidth details

Reports and Analysis

  • Power and Performance analysis
  • Network behaviour by varying workload and network configurations
  • Bandwidth allocation percentage for isochronous transfers
  • Available bandwidth after connecting devices and possible bottlenecks

Firewire-serial bus for high speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer