FireWire 800 is the next generation of FireWire technology. It supports the IEEE-1394b High Performance Serial Bus standard. The FireWire 800 implementation of the IEEE-1394b standard supports transfer speeds up to 800 Mb/s and device distances can now be up to 100 meters through the use of special cables. FireWire 800 high-speed serial I/O technology is particularly great for use with multimedia peripherals such as digital video (DV) camcorders and tape decks.

It supports all other FireWire peripherals such as disk drives, ultra high-resolution scanners, printers and digital still cameras.

The FireWire 800 products function at the maximum IEEE-1394b rated speed of 800 megabits/second (100megabytes/sec). The FireWire 800 products are fully backward compatible with S100, S200 and S400 rated 1394 devices. It allows up to 63 devices to be connected in a chain through its standard 6-pin and  9-pin ports. It can be used with third party video editing software to capture, edit and export full size, full motion DV video at 720 by 480 pixels at 30 frames per second. FireWire 800 can also be used in a workgroup network environment at close to 1000BASE-T speeds.

The IEEE1394 multimedia connection (also known as Fire Wire by Apple Computer, and iLink by Sony) features hot swapping, high-speed performance, peer to peer communication and daisy chained which can accept up to 63 devices connected simultaneously.

 Key Features :

• Chipset :  Texas Instrument single-chip IEEE 1394 controller TSB82AA2
•  Data Transfer Rate:    1394a 100/200/400Mbps, OHCI 1.1
                                   1394b 100/200/400/800Mbps, OHCI 1.1.
• Bus :  PCI 2.2 32/64 bit, 33MHz, 3.3V&5V
• Isochronous receive dual-buffer mode
• Programmable asynchronous transmit threshold
• PCI burst transfers and deep FIFOs to tolerate large host latency
• Data transfer rates up to 800 Mb/s
• Isochronous and Asynchronous data transfer
• Function Control Protocol (FCP)
• Connection Management Protocol (CMP)
• Works in 64-bit or 32 bit PCI slot
• Supports devices hot swap.
• Supports Power class 001₂(1)
• Auxiliary power connecter increase the power available to 1394b bus up to 30W.
• MS Windows compatible including DV and SBP-2 drivers, supports all common camcorders, disk drives, printers and scanners with 1394 interfaces.

• Supports Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 ,Windows XP,
  Mac OS 8.6-9.x, Mac OS 10.1.x -10.2.3 & Mac OS 10.2.4 or newer

 Firewire Ports :

• Fully backwards compatible with FireWire 400/1394a devices

• OHCI compliant IEEE-1394b Host Controller; 100 (12.5 MB/sec) Mbits/s; 200 Mbit/s (25 MB/sec); 400 Mbit/s (50 MB/sec) ; 800 Mbit/s (100 MB/sec)
• 1394b Cable Power: 12V, 9W max from PCI bus
  (optional +12V internal power connector up to 30W)
• Connect up to 63 devices, internal or external
• Supports Plug-and-Play Specification
• Complies with Standard for a IEEE-1394b High Performance Serial Bus/ iLink

Connectors :

• One external 6-pin FireWire port
• Two external 9-pin Bi-Lingual FireWire ports
• One internal 4-pin power (optional – connect to internal power supply)
• Supports Plug-and-Play Specification

          
 

Power Consumption :

The FireWire 800 PCI card supplies 12V, 9W maximum to the FireWire bus from the PCI bus. The optional +12V internal power connector (when connected to your system power supply) provides up to 30 watts of power.