Highlight
  • Host Bus: 1-lane 2.5 Gb/s PCI Express
  • Two OHCI 1.1 Compliant FireWire (IEEE 1394a)
    • FWX2-PCIE01-2: Two FireWire 1394a Cable Ports
    • FWX2-PCIE01-4: Four FireWire 1394a Cable Ports
Introduction

The FWX2-PCIE01 is a Dual OHCI 1.1 Compliant FireWire (IEEE 1394a) to PCI Express x1 Host Card.
FWX2-PCIE01 is designed with two key components.

  • PCI Express to PCI Bus Translation bridge
  • Two OHCI 1.1 Compliant IEEE 1394a Single Chip Host Controllers

The PCI Express to PCI local bus translation bridge takes advantages of the 2.5 Gb/s burst rate of 1-lane PCI Express bus and the PCI bus interface is connected to two OHCI 1.1 Compliant IEEE 1394a Single Chip Host Controller (TSB43AB22A). This solution provides full PCI Express and dual 1394a functionality and performance.

The TSB43AB22A device supports hardware enhancements to better support digital video (DV) and MPEG data stream reception and transmission. These enhancements include automatic timestamp insertion for transmitted DV and MPEG format video stream, and common isochronous packet (CIP) header stripping for received DV stream.
Technical Specifications
PCI Express
  • Supports 1-lane 2.5 Gb/s PCI Express
  • Compliant with PCI Express Base Specification, Revision 2.0
IEEE 1394 Std Support
  • Fully compliant with provisions of IEEE Std 1394-1995 for high-performance serial bus and the 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.
  • EEPROM Configuration Support to Load the Global Unique ID for the 1394 Fabric.
1394 Bus Transfer Rate IEEE Std 1394a-2000 Fully Compliant Cable Ports at 100M Bits/s, 200M Bits/s, and 400M Bits/s.
Number of Ports

FWX2-PCIE01-2: Two FireWire 1394a Cable Ports

  • OHCI 1 (FW-6pin X 1)
  • OHCI 2 (FW-6pin X 1)

˙FWX2-PCIE01-4: Four FireWire 1394a Cable Ports

  • OHCI 1 (FW-6pin X 2)
  • OHCI 2 (FW-6pin X 2)
1394 Bus Power: 12V 1394 Bus Power Input could be from the following source:
A. From PCIe Edge Connector
B. From SATA 15-pin Power Connector
C. From IDE Big 4-pin Power Connector
Physical Dimensions
  • 108.8mm(W) x 74.12mm[120mm](H)
  • NW: 59g
Certifications
  • CE Test: Pass
  • UKCA Test: Pass
  • FCC Test : Pass
  • VCCI Test: Pass
  • RCM Test: Pass