IEEE 1394: Status and growth path

Stephen L Diamond, Picosoft Inc., San Mateo, CA, USA

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 1996)

Gerald Marazas, 1394 working-group chair and a senior engineer in the IBM PC Company's Architecture Department, submitted this update on IEEE Std 1394-1995 High Performance Serial Bus. He describes the standard's current status in industry and enumerates possible extensions for second-generation standardization. For further details on Std 1394, see P1394: Good for desktops and portables, Micro Standards, April, 1995.—S.L.D.