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 Innovating IEEE 1394 Firewire TechnologyDapTechnology is a company deeply committed to the design, development & marketing of high quality IEEE 1394 products and integrated solutions. The company, being one of the pioneers of IEEE 1394 technology, has enjoyed strong growth through the worldwide sales of its IEEE 1394 FireSpy® Protocol Analyzers, FireLink® Link Layer Controller IP Cores and other connectivity solutions. Today, DapTechnology is an internationally represented company with customers located worldwide and offices in The Netherlands, the United States of America and Canada. The company also has key representatives in Asia, Europe and North America.
DapTechnology’s FireLink 1394b LLC IP Core Enhances PixeLINK’s Firewire Vision (Monday 07. of December 2009)
(Nijmegen, The Netherlands, December 7, 2009) DapTechnology, a leading world supplier of advanced IEEE 1394 technology solutions to the aerospace, defense, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics markets, announced today that PixeLINK of Ottawa, Ontario has selected and is currently integrating the DapTechnology FireLink 1394b Link Layer Controller IP Core as a key component of the company’s Megapixel™ camera product line. FireLink, implemented in industry-standard VHDL code, is available for Xilinx and Altera FPGA devices. The product is targeted at applications requiring up to 800 Mbits/Sec of bandwidth and embedded designs requiring a general purpose IEEE 1394b Link Layer Controller.
FireLink provides facilities for transmitting and receiving IEEE 1394 packets, including asynchronous, isochronous, and PHY packets at speeds of up to 800Mb/s. DapTechnology markets both a Basic and Extended version of FireLink. The FireLink Basic version is optimized for small core sizes while the FireLink Extended version, which leverages on OHCI-compatible DMA transfer technology, is optimized for high throughput applications.
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DapTechnology Fires Up World’s First 3.2 Gigabit IEEE 1394b FireWire SOC Solution (Monday 23. of November 2009)
(Nijmegen, the Netherlands, November 23, 2009) DapTechnology, a world-leading supplier of advanced IEEE 1394 protocol analyzers and solutions to the aerospace, defense, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics markets, announced today that the company successfully demonstrated the world’s first high speed S3200 3.2 Gigabit IEEE 1394b FireWire system-on-a-chip (SOC) solution at VISION 2009 in Stuttgart, Germany.
The demonstration showed video data being transported from a Xilinx development board through a 10 meter standard FireWire cable to a PCI Express board within a host computer. The company is spearheading this development with support from Point Grey, a world leader in the development of advanced digital camera systems, as a result of growing market need for higher speed IEEE 1394b technology at a time when comparable silicon-based solutions are non-existent.
The DapTechnology 3.2 Gigabit 1394b PHY IP will initially be available on a Xilinx FPGA and comprises a 1394b standards-compliant PHY IP boasting throughput rates of up to 3.2 Gigabits per second – a performance gain of up to 4 times that of the currently available IEEE 1394b-2002 and Gigabit Ethernet standards. The 3.2 Gigabit IEEE 1394b SOC Solution suite, which is expected to be released commercially by the end of December 2010, will include the DapTechnology 3.2 Gigabit compliant IEEE 1394b PHY IP, FireLink Extended Link Layer Controller IP core, a 3.2 Gigabit Peripheral Development Board, a 4-lane PCI Express Host Adapter and a 3.2 Gigabit IEEE 1394b FireSpy Analyzer. An S1600 1.6 Gigabit version of the suite is expected to be available by the end of April 2010.
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Introducing: The All New FireTrac!DapTechnology is proud to introduce an industry-revolutionizing solution! FireTracTM is the perfect answer to advanced AS5643 tasks that involve device simulation, data recording or any other critical interfacing requirements. FireTracTM complements Dap's already impressive product offering (see animation for product positioning) in the aeroespace market and is another proof for the company's continued commitment to the development of innovative products. FireTracTM utilizes DapTechology's own 1394b Link Layer IP core FireLink® and SW stack FireStack® which allows for a very unique and solution oriented product.
FireTracTM is a very universal approach to deal with Mil1394 (AS5643) type of traffic. It is uniquely suited for AS5643 level Data
Extraction and Analysis (RX) but also Data Generation and Device Simulation (TX). Together with its customers, DapTechnology has identified a wide range of applications that are perfectly suited for FireTracTM. | |
Featured Product: 1394b FPGA LLC IP Core Extended VersionDapTechnology proudly announces the availability of the Extended version of its FireLink® 1394b Link Layer IP core. FireLink®, implemented in industry-standard VHDL code, is available initially for Xilinx FPGA devices and soon for Altera. The product is targeted at applications requiring up to 800 Mbits/Sec of bandwidth and embedded designs requiring a high performance general purpose IEEE 1394b Link Layer Controller.
While the basic version targets system implementations with low bandwidth requirements the extended version takes full advantage of the DMA architecture and is optimized for data throughput. “Scalability coupled with a high performance DMA architecture answers the call for bandwidth-hungry IEEE 1394b applications”, says Cor Jansen, CTO of DapTechnology. Mr. Jansen adds, “The FireLink® Extended IEEE 1394b Link Layer Controller IP core provides an additional 1394 building block which aids in accelerating and simplifying the IEEE 1394b solution development process”.
The industrial applications of FireLink® are quite broad and include robotics, machine vision, wide format digital printing and medical imaging. Furthermore, the FireLink® LLC Core is ideal for use in Consumer Electronics equipment such as Set Top Boxes, DVD peripherals and High Definition A/V equipment. And the exclusive support of AS5643 make it very well positioned for aerospace and defense applications.
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