SRC Technical Note 1998-012

Firelink: A Reconfigurable Firewire Testbed

Oskar Mencer, Mark Shand, Michael J. Flynn

We describe the design and implementation of a reconfigurable high-speed interface for IEEE 1394 Firewire and measurements obtained with this system. For the physical and link layers we use a commercial chip-set. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays on the PCI Pamette and a secondary FireLink board are used to implement a simple transaction layer interfacing the link layers to the host CPU.

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