Specifications
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1394 Trade Association
The official industry consortium behind 1394 technology. They house specifications for AV/C and other stuff.
Don't miss their great 1394 Standards and Specifications Summary.
IEEE 1394
IEEE Std 1394-1995
http://standards.ieee.org/reading/ieee/std_public/description/busarch/1394-1995_desc.html (description)
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isNumber=11289
IEEE standard for a high performance serial bus
IEEE Std 1394a-2000
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isNumber=18547
IEEE Standard for a high Performance Serial Bus - Amendment 1. A lot of the IEEE 1394a updates are relevant to programmers.
IEEE Std 1394b-2002
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isNumber=25840
IEEE Standard for a High-Performance Serial Bus - Amendment 2. Defines S100B...S1600B transmission modes over copper and optical fibre. Only very few details of this huge update to IEEE 1394 are relevant to programmers.
IEEE Std 1394c-2006
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isNumber=4231514
IEEE Standard for a High-Performance Serial Bus - Amendment 3. Defines S800T, an 800 Mbit/s transmission mode over gigabit Ethernet copper. Probably not (yet) relevant to programmers.
IEEE Std 1394.1-2004
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isNumber=32032
IEEE Standard for High Performance Serial Bus Bridges. Defines bridging devices which connect separate FireWire buses. No implementations are known. The Linux drivers don't have explicit support for 1394.1 yet but should at least be prepared to deal with bus IDs other than the local bus.
IEEE 1212
IEEE Std 1212-2001
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isNumber=22175
IEEE standard for a control and status registers (CSR) architecture for microcomputer buses. IEEE 1394 is an implementation of IEEE 1212 (the most important one, and the only one besides SCI, Scalable Coherent Interface). IEEE 1212 especially defines the format and generic contents of the configuration ROM.
ISO/IEC 13213: 1994(E), ANSI/IEEE Std 1212, 1994 Edition
http://www.iec.ch/cgi-bin/procgi.pl/www/iecwww.p?wwwprog=seabox1.p&seabox1=13213
This was revised and hence superseded by IEEE 1212-2001.
1394 Open Host Controller Interface Specification
OHCI Release 1.00, October 20, 1997
Some controllers, e.g. VIA VT6306 which is still in production, only support OHCI 1.0 instead of the more current OHCI 1.1.
OHCI Release 1.1, January 6, 2000
http://developer.intel.com/technology/1394/download/ohci_11.htm
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/1/161ba512-40e2-4cc9-843a-923143f3456c/ohci_11.pdf
Look here for the most in-depth technical information about IEEE 1394 technology, at least as it applies to OHCI. This spec is gratis, whereas the IEEE specifications have to be purchased.
OHCI 1.1 especially adds dual-buffer reception.
OHCI Release 1.2
Among else, this was apparently supposed to update OHCI for 1394b. But this spec was never finished. Currently available 1394b host adapters implement OHCI 1.1 or a superset of it.
The Serial Bus Protocol
SBP
This is obsolete and practically irrelevant.
http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/sbp/sbp-r22a.pdf
SBP-2
http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/sbp2/sbp2r04.pdf
final draft
http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ANSI%20INCITS%20325-1998%20(R2003)
This is where you order (i.e., purchase) the SBP-2 standard from ANSI.
Serial Bus Protocol 2 is a SCSI transport protocol but can also be used to transport commands of non-SCSI command sets. All of the FireWire storage devices (harddisks, CD/DVD-ROM/R/W, card readers, scanners, ...) implement SBP-2 and typically one or another SCSI command set such as RBC or MMC.
SBP-3
http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=ANSI+INCITS+375-2004
http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/sbp3/sbp3r05.pdf
final draft
This version adds isochronous support to Serial Bus Protocol, particularly for A/V applications. It also adds support for remote buses behind 1394.1 bridges. There are no devices known to implement SBP-3.
other SCSI drafts
Instrumentation and Industrial Control Digital Camera (IIDC) Specification
http://damien.douxchamps.net/ieee1394/libdc1394/iidc_specifications.php
http://www.1394ta.com/Technology/Specifications/Descriptions/IIDC_Spec_v1_30.htm
This specification covers uncompressed video and camera control (focus, format, pan, zoom, white balance, etc.). Also known as DCAM.
IEC 61883
http://www.iec.ch/cgi-bin/procgi.pl/www/iecwww.p?wwwprog=seabox1.p&seabox1=61883
Consumer audio/video equipment - Digital interface
Part 1: General
Part 2: SD-DVCR data transmission
Part 3: HD-DVCR data transmission
Part 4: MPEG2-TS data transmission
Part 5: SDL-DVCR data transmission (TA4)
Part 6: Audio and music data transmission protocol
Part 7: Transmission of ITU-R BO.1294 System B
IP over 1394
RFC 2734
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2734.txt
http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2734.html
IPv4 over IEEE 1394
RFC 2855
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2855.txt
http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2855.html
DHCP for IEEE 1394
RFC 3146
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3146.txt
http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3146.html
Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 1394 Networks
