FireWire

Mirabilis Design Inc provides IEEE 1394 or FireWire as a standard library in VisualSim Architect modeling environment. Using this configurable library, designers can architect next generation networking system for high performance systems by conducting early design space exploration, power and performance analysis.

FireWire Modeling library enables system designers and architects to conduct early design explorations of FireWire based System Architecture. Library is preconfigured to generate network statistics and understand network activities to analyze network behavior by varying workload and network configurations. As the FireWire library package includes Node, Link and also Integrated Traffic generator, designers can assemble simulation model of the proposed system very quickly. For example, if a designer wants to evaluate performance of FireWire network with a Camera with a resolution of 800x600 8‐bits per pixel at 30 fps. Typical challenges that a designer may come across at this stage would be, how many such cameras can be connected to the network, Bandwidth allocation percentage for isochronous transfers, available bandwidth after connecting second camera with the same format, possible bottlenecks. VisualSim FireWire library enables designers to address these questions and also enables designers to evaluate system behavior with custom network configurations as well.  

FireWire library is built to the specifications and is compliant with IEEE Std 1394™-2008 revision. Data transmission rates of S100, S200, S400, S800, S1600 and S3200 are supported.

Graphical representation of a sample FireWire network model structure in VisualSim will be as shown in figure 1.0

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