Project Name: FireWire

Description

FireWire, an Apple trademarked name for IEEE 1394 protocol, is a high performance serial bus protocol to provide easy-to-use, low-cost, high-speed communications. Click here for a good collection of links to IEEE 1394 documents.

The goal of the FireWire project is to provide free IEEE-1394 compliant Physical Layer and Link Layer IP cores. The FireWire project will also include firmware for Transaction Layer and Serial Bus Management Layer.

Current Status:

• Researching FireWire protocol
• Initial FireWire homepage was released on June 30, 2001.

Project Plan:

• FireWire homepage setup
• FireWire protocol research <====
• FireWire requirements documentation
• FireWire specification documentation
• RTL Coding (most likely in Verilog)
• Test bench development and verification
• Synthesis and P&R targeting Altera and Xilinx FPGA's
• Timing verification
• FireWire cores validation on hardware if possible
• FireWire cores release

Author and Maintainer(s):

• Jim

Mailing-list:

• cores@opencores.org_NOSPAM