P1394b Documents (1997)

• Documents from the December meetings in Ft. Lauderdale:
  • Copperheads (copper connector) minutes from Max Bassler
  • S800+ long haul minutes from Richard Churchill
  • p1394b minutes from Richard Churchill
  • EMI and STQ Evaluation of the FireWire/IEEE1394 Interconnect by Michael Fogg of AMP
• Documents in preparation for the Ft. Lauderdale meeting:
  • LC Connector,The High Density Standard for Premises Networks, by Masood Shariff of Lucent Technologies
  • Port task group report and connection mgt services from Alistair Coles.
  • Proposed phy-link interface sections from Martin Sodos.
  • Mini-MT letter and status newsletter from Charles Brill of AMP.
  • Proposed low cost media (section 8) text from Shuntaro Yamazaki of NEC, also a comparison chart (unreadable right now) and connection scenarios between S100 and S800.
  • Proposed Connection mgt (section 9) by Colin.
  • Current status of "holes" in the draft from Eric.
  • Fiber connector selection matrix from Colin.
  • Caps on the interface, from David Instone.
  • Comments on 500v isolation caps from Eric Hannah.
  • Speed signalling from Alistair Coles.
  • Phy-link strawman from Colin and Eric.
• Vesa home network liaison report from Eric Hannah.
• Documents from the October 23-24 meeting in Maui:
  • Minutes from the main meeting on Oct 23-24
  • Minutes from the high-speed long-haul meeting on Oct 23
  • Phy-Link interface report from Martin Sodos.
  • Optical Mini- jack for IEEE1394 from Takatoshi Mizoguchi of Sharp.
  • Connection sceneros from Colin.
  • Physical Media Dependent Layersfor 100Mbps - 400Mbps IEEE1394 Long Distance Links and a presentation from Shuntaro Yamazaki of NEC.
  • Agenda and voting procedures for connector selection from Colin.
  • Startup proposal from James T Doyle of CEG, Intel Corp.
  • "Upstarts" group status from Colin.
  • Updated startup proposal from Colin.
• Documents for the Maui meeting submitted ahead of time (these are the good guys!):
  • New startup proposal from Colin.
  • Selection matrix for connector selection from Colin.
  • Arbitration acceleration task group status from Dave LaFollette.
  • Port task group status and proposed text from Alistair Coles.
  • Scrambler and comma characters proposals from Alistair Coles.
  • Electrical task group report from Eric Hannah.
  • Data sheet for the LC connector, from Masood Shariff of Lucent.
  • Data sheet for connector and transceiver for 3M VF45 from Juan Pulido of 3M.
• Two documents from the ad-hoc startup meeting at the 1394 TA in Arizona:
  • Minutes
  • proposed section 9 for the draft
• Some documents from the last meeting (September 23-24) in Natick, MA:
  • Minutes from the main meeting on September 24.
  • Three reports from Colin Whitby-Strevens:
    • Report from the S800 PMD subgroup to P1394b cws971003-S800-pmd.pdf
    • Revised Start-up presentation (with modifications suggested during the presentation) cws971003-startup.pdf
    • Revised connector requirements and additional information presentation cws971003-conn-req.pdf
  • Phy-link task group report from Martin Sodos of ISSI
  • Suspend-resume for beta mode slides and paper from Steve Bard of Intel.
  • Modified Tree-ID_Process for Long-haul Transmission and Long PHY_DELAY, by Takayuki Nyu, C&C Media Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation
  • Port protocol team open issues from Alistair Coles
  • Arbitration acceleration outline from Michael Johas Teener
  • Speed signalling proposal from Alistair Coles
  • Proposed 1,2 & 4 GBd 1394b Multimode Fiber Link Specifications & Issues, Del Hanson of Hewlett-Packard
  • Connector and cable study from Eric Hannah
  • The 0.05 Draft document from Eric Hannah
  • VF-45 Duplex Fiber Optic Interconnect from Juan Pulido of 3M
  • Fiber Jack Connector from Don Wiencek of Panduit Corporation
  • LC Connector, A High Density Fiber Optic Network Solution from Yvonne Reeves of Lucent Technologies
  • Plastic Optical Fiber by Charles Brill of AMP
  • Direct Optical Interconnect "A New Fiber Optic Component System Offering Significant Cost, Safety and Performance Advantages" by David M. Barnum of Stewart Connector
• Minutes from the long distance low cost PMD meeting in Japan on September 2, 1997.
• Some documents from the August 6-8, 1997 meetings in Honolulu:
  • Minutes from the Low Cost PMD Task Group.
  • Proposed Baseline Document of Physical Media Dependent Layers for 100Mbps - 400Mbps IEEE1394 Long Distance Links by the Low Cost PMD Task Group
  • S100 1394B and UTP from Alistair Coles
  • P1394b joint PMD Task Groups Agenda from Colin Whitbey-Strevens
  • Minutes from the joint long-distance PMD meeting
  • What's POF?, a summary of Plastic Optical Fiber technology by Kazuki Nakamura
  • What's GI H-PCF?, a summary of a low cost graded index fiber, by Kazuki Sogabe and Takayuki Mishima.
  • Minutes from the long-distance high-speed PMD meeting
  • Connector requirements from Colin Whitbey-Strevens
  • PMD reports from Colin Whitbey-Strevens
  • Overview of the modified 8B10B code scheme from Alistair Coles.
  • Start- up with modified 8B10B scheme from Alistair Coles
  • Minutes from the main meeting.
• Spice model of existing 1394 connector, extracted by Eric Hannah from some Intel-measured data.
• Proposed change to root contention time constants, proposed by Takayuki Nyu, and another one by Alistair Coles.
• Minutes from the long distance low cost PMD meeting in Japan on July 8, 1997.
• Some documents from the June 10-11 meetings at Sea-Tac.
  • Slides from Colin which are updates from his discussion-leading items in the long distance PMD meeting.
  • Slides from Alistair Coles describing alternative codes and a proposed modification to the IBM 8B10B with more robust controls and spread-spectrum features ... and associated Slides from Eric Deliot on "Spectral measurements and use of a scrambler".
  • Minutes of the long distance PMD meeting
  • Minutes from the main meeting.
• Minutes from the long distance low cost PMD meeting in Japan 0n May 28.
  • Slides from shuntaro Yamazaki of NEC on the requirement criteria that must be defined.
• Some documents from the May 5 and 6 meetings:
  • Minutes from both days.
  • Slides from Colin's summary of the long distance PMD BOF meeting at the April TA.
  • Slides and a paper by Colin describing a possible "beta" mode startup. (Also available as FrameMaker binary)
  • Report from Jerry Hauck on bit ordering for 8B10B encoding (basically says that GBit Enet and FibreChannel have it backwards).
  • Musings from official gadfly David Wooten on beta mode operation and startup.
• Meeting minutes from the long distance PMD BOF at the April TA meeting.
• Meeting minutes for the April 7, 1997 meeting.
  • IBM proposal for 8b10b startup.
• Meeting minutes for March 3, 1997 meeting
  • Presentation from Colin Whitbey-Strevens meeting on beta mode startup and other issues.
  • Presentation from Eric Hannah on connectors and cables at gigabit speeds.
  • Presentation from Dao-Long Chen on continuous vs. start-stop operation.
• Meeting minutes from the January 13, 1997 meeting.
  • Alternate 8B10B proposal from HP Bristol.

Presentation from Colin Whitbey-Strevens from the January 1997 meeting.