FireTrac™ - Advanced I/O adapter

FireTrac^TM is a new product to complement DapTechnology’s successful FireSpy® and Mil1394OHCI host adapter product lines. It clearly is the next generation Mil1394 (SAE AS5643) data processing, simulation and testing solution.

DapTechnology has seen an increasing demand for more streamlined hardware systems for the processing of AS5643 (and generic 1394) data streams. Customers get more and more involved in monitoring the actual data content rather than the 1394 layer. And for simulation purposes they require advanced error insertion capabilities that can only be accomplished with non-off-the-shelf Link Layer implementations. IRIG time-stamping of monitored events on the bus is a typical requirement.

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FireTrac^TM is the answer for this market need. It is designed to natively (not just as an add-on protocol) support Mil1394 (SAE AS5643). Besides the standard IEE1394 features FireTrac^TM has been architectured to provide hardware level support for Mil1394 (SAE AS5643) which reduces host processor burden, specifically for packet encapsulation, data extraction, receive/transmit STOF offsets, etc…As a key example FireTrac^TM handles Mil1394 transmission timing entirely in hardware therefore making it a lot more accurate. It is important to understand that FireTrac^TM is a dedicated and optimized solution for the processing of AS5643 type traffic. Support for this protocol is embedded in the hardware and not just a software layer, as it is provided with other solutions that rely on COTS OHCI chipsets. FireTrac^TM fully benefits from using Dap's own FireLink® LLC IP core which offers this unique HW protocol level support.

Another key element is FireTrac^TM’s customization capability. The  Personality Profiles allow the solution to be adapted for use in embedded systems which typically have limited resources, and/or with powerful host processors that can utilize even the fully featured profile. Additionally, FireTrac^TM is supported on a variety of operating systems.

Key Feature

• IEEE 1394b-2002
• SAE AS5643 and Mil1394 enhancements
• S200b, S400b transfer rates
• 3 independent bus channels (FireLink, PHY, transformers)
• 9 active transformer coupled FireWire ports (adapter cable)
• PMC form factor with carrier cards (PCI, PCIe, cPCI, etc…)
• PCI-X 2.0a Host Interface,
• PCI Specification 3.0 compliant
• DMA Transfer (sustained 3x 400Mb/s 1394 bus traffic at max bus load)
• IRIG B122 and IEEE1344
• Field-upgradable
• Support for:
• WindowsTM 2000, XP and XP-64
• Linux
• VxWorks
• LabView (RT)
• LabWindows (RT)
• IRIX
• C/C++ API
• Abstraction Layers for Operating System (OSAL) and Link (LAL)