The FireWire standard makes a host of applications feasible for mainstream PCs by providing a highway for rich digital data streams with transfer rates of up to 400-Mbps. It provides an interface for data intensive peripherals such as digital video cameras, and should match or exceed the port expansion, hot-puggability, and plug and play aspects of USB. A comprehensive technical guide to IEEE 1394 standard, this text describes the FireWire specification and dscusses in detail the architecture, features, and operations of systems built using the FireWire bus.
- ISBN10 0201694700
- ISBN13 9780201694703
- Publish Date 18 March 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pearson Education Limited
- Imprint Addison Wesley
- Format Paperback
- Pages 448
- Language English