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WORKING GROUPS OF THE 1394 TRADE ASSOCIATION
The 1394 Trade Association assists in the activities of the following working groups. In addition to quarterly face-to-face meetings and off-cycle meetings and conference calls, each working group also has an email-based discussion list.
The privilege of participating in these activities is generally reserved for members, but we welcome inquiries from parties interested in learning more. Please feel free to contact James Snider to find out how you can get involved in the planning and development of future 1394-based specifications and applications.
Audio/Visual:
Chair - Tsuyoshi Sawada, Sony
The charter of the A/V Working Group is to develop command sets, control
protocols and digital transmission formats for consumer use of 1394 in
applications such as digital camcorders, digital set top boxes, digital
TVs, audio and music devices, and others.
Automotive:
Chair - Bob Fust, Autosplice
The Automotive Working Group works jointly with the IDB Forum's Automotive
Task Group to leverage the existing IEEE1394 industry standard, define
requirements supporting vehicle passenger compartment operation, provide
S400 bit rate nominal, support non-safety critical vehicle functions and
services including, but not limited to, Multi-media and Telematics applications,
define automotive grade Plastic Optical Fiber physical layer requirements
(including transceiver, connector, and cable) for automotive OEM installed
components, define automotive grade twisted-pair physical layer requirements
(including connector and cable) for connecting aftermarket consumer electronic
devices, work in conjunction with the Cable & Connector Working Group
to develop the connector and cable specifications, define automotive specific
message set (protocol), and work together with the automotive OEMs to
ensure deliverables are satisfactorily met.
Cables and Connectors:
Chair - Max Bassler, Littelfuse
The Cables and Connectors Working Group assembles a group of connector
industry experts under the 1394TA organization to help implement 1394
technology. This includes specifically matters of connectors, cables and
mechanical packaging. This Working Group (CCWG) may publish its own specifications
or technical bulletins under the rules of the Trade Association or may
feed other standards bodies promoting 1394 technology. Following the 1394TA
Bylaws, the CC WG will honor the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) Patent Policy and related ANSI copyright policy.
Compliance and Interoperability:
Chair - Richard Mourn, Quantum Parametrics
The Compliance and Interoperability working group functions to promote,
educate and lead the 1394 industry to consistency of conformance and interoperability.
The working group is responsible for developing certain test specifications
that are not clearly owned by other 1394TA working groups.
Industrial and Instrumentation:
Chair: Michael Scholles, Fraunhofer IPMS
The Industrial and Instrumentation working group functions to promote
industrial applications of 1394, especially for image processing and motion
control. The working group is responsible for the development of respective
specifications, mainly for application-specific protocols and compliance
and interoperability testing of industrial 1394 products.
Marketing:
Chair: Bill Rose, WJR Consulting
The 1394 Trade Association Marketing Working Group was created to advance
the adoption of 1394. Activities include promotion to OEMs, Suppliers,
and End Users. The Marketing Working Group promotes the 1394 Trade Association,
its standards and activities as well as the benefits of the 1394 technology
and the products/services of its member companies. Activities include
trade show participation, contributed articles, press/analyst tours, promotional
materials, seminars, and technology evangelism to targeted companies or
industries.
Pro Audio:
Chair: Steven Saffer, TC Applied Technologies
The Pro-Audio working group provides a way for professional audio
companies to ensure that their needs and requirements are considered when
new 1394 standards are created, and existing 1394 standards are adapted
or modified. It provides a discussion forum for Professional Audio companies
developing products using 1394. Work includes the development of use cases
for the application of 1394 in areas such as recording, installed sound
systems, and touring/live sound systems, and compliance procedures and
requirements for ensuring interoperability within such applications. Further
development work is then recommended to the Board of the 1394TA to be
completed by the PAWG and/or other groups as appropriate.
Residential Backbone:
Chair: Les Baxter, Baxter Enterprises
Vice Chair: Hans Van der ven, AV Connections
The Residential Backbone Working Group works towards the establishment
of common high volume residential backbone standards for the installation
of 1394 structural hardware.
Silicon:
Chair: Colin Whitby-Strevens, Apple
The Silicon Working Group addresses issues concerned with silicon implementation
of 1394 specifications.
Current work items:
1394b Errata (TB2002001)
S1600 Electrical Specification
S3200 Electrical Specification
S200/S400 Residential and Automotive UTP Electrical Specification
S1600/S3200 parallel PHY/Link interface
System & Network Architectures:
Chair - Peter Johansson, Congruent Software
The Architecture working group and its reflector provide a general
forum for the discussion of Serial Bus issues whose solution requires
cooperative agreement on common architectural definitions. Self-contained
applications usually fall within the scope of other 1394 Trade Association
working groups. Some of its functions are to disseminate information (by
way of technical bulletins and presentations), to educate members about
Serial Bus (by way of topical presentations and liaison reports) and to
promote interdisciplinary exchanges of information. The working group
is also an incubator for the early development of consensus before projects
are launched within accredited standards organizations.
Wireless:
Chair: Hans van der Ven, AV Connections
The Wireless working group surveys industry needs and undertakes projects
facilitating interconnection between IEEE 1394 (wired) domains and wireless
domains for electronic equipment—A/V and PCs, for example.
Domains might differ significantly at low-level protocol
layers; therefore, bridges are essential for interconnection: bridges
conceal differences that do not affect higher-level interoperability.
Projects authorized by the working group are suitable
for electronic equipment and endeavor to harmonize with other related
industry efforts.
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MISSION
The 1394 Trade Association actively promotes
the proliferation of the IEEE 1394 Serial Bus standard technology into
the computer, consumer, peripheral, and industrial markets to enable a
truly interoperable, standardized, universal I/O and back plane interconnect.
The 1394 TA provides members the opportunity
to achieve this mission. We organize and hold Quarterly Meetings and Developer's
Conferences, and attend Tradeshows and related seminars as a means by
which the members can work together on the use of IEEE 1394 to expand
all target markets
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