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Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Apr 7, 2005

New from SBS Technologies is the conduction-cooled 3U 1394B-3CP1 CompactPCI IEEE1394B input/output card.

New from SBS Technologies is the conduction-cooled 3U 1394B-3CP1 CompactPCI IEEE1394B input/output card.

The 1394B I/O card is engineered to support a maximum data transport speed of 400Mbit/s (S400B).

The versatile 1394B-3CP1 offers a maximum datarate of 100Mbit/second (S100B) for designs that require transformer-coupled bus isolation.

The 1394B-3CP1 is ideal for data communications, avionics, navtronics, vetronics, local area networking and telecommunications applications that need the versatility, high throughput and flexibility of 1394-based connections.

Using a PCI bridge to interface a CompactPCI bus to the card, the 3U 1394B-3CP1 card uses four high-performance 1394B nodes with two ports per node for a total of eight 1394B ports.

Four user-defined, general purpose 1394B I/O ports give system designers the flexibility to support various data speeds up to 400Mbit/s.

In addition, the 1394B-3CP1 supports the USB 2.0 data transport protocol with one USB node containing two USB 2.0 ports, providing the 1394B-CP1 card with added versatility.

"With the introduction of a conduction-cooled 1394B in a CompactPCI form factor, our customers can take advantage of the flexibility of 1394B devices in their system designs", said Dave Wessing, Vice President and General Manager of the SBS Government Group.

"System engineers can configure the conduction-cooled 1394B-3CP1 for robust synchronous serial communications as an engine controller or with system peripherals such as video cameras, data storage units and other 1394-enabled devices".