PIKE Technical Manual
V5.0.0
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Contents
Contacting Allied Vision Technologies
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Document history ......................................................................................................... 12
Manual overview........................................................................................................... 22
Conventions used in this manual..................................................................................... 24
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Definition ............................................................................................................... 30
IEEE 1394 standards ................................................................................................. 30
Why use FireWire? .................................................................................................... 31
Serial bus................................................................................................................ 31
FireWire connection capabilities ................................................................................. 33
Capabilities of 1394a (FireWire 400)............................................................................ 33
Image transfer via 1394a and 1394b ........................................................................... 36
1394b bandwidths.................................................................................................... 37
Requirements for PC and 1394b.............................................................................. 37
Requirements for laptop and 1394b ........................................................................ 38
Example1: 1394b bandwidth of PIKE cameras ........................................................... 40
Example 2: More than one PIKE camera at full speed ................................................. 41
FireWire Plug & play capabilities................................................................................. 42
FireWire hot-plug and screw-lock precautions ............................................................... 42
Screw-lock and power supply precautions..................................................................... 43
Operating system support .......................................................................................... 44
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