FW801BF Low-Power PHY 1394a-2000
One-Cable Transceiver/Arbiter Device
Data Sheet
January 2005
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Distinguishing Features
Compliant with IEEE® Standard 1394a-2000,
IEEE Standard for a High Performance Serial
Bus Amendment 1.
Low power consumption during powerdown or
microlow-power sleep mode.
Supports extended BIAS_HANDSHAKE time for
enhanced interoperability with camcorders.
While unpowered and connected to the bus, will
not drive TPBIAS on a connected port even if
receiving incoming bias voltage on that port.
Does not require external filter capacitors for PLL.
Does not require a separate 5 V supply for 5 V link
controller interoperability.
Interoperable across 1394 cable with 1394 physi-
cal layers (PHY) using 5 V supplies.
Interoperable with 1394 link-layer controllers using
5 V supplies.
1394a-2000 compliant common mode noise filter
on incoming TPBIAS.
Powerdown features to conserve energy in bat-
tery-powered applications include the following:
— Device powerdown ball.
— Link interface disable using LPS.
— Inactive ports power down.
— Automatic microlow-power sleep mode during
suspend.
Interface to link-layer controller supports Annex J
electrical isolation as well as bus-keeper isolation.
Supports PHY pinging and remote PHY access
packets.
Fully supports suspend/resume.
Supports PHY-link interface initialization and reset.
Supports 1394a-2000 register set.
Supports LPS/link-on as a part of PHY-link inter-
face.
Supports provisions of IEEE 1394-1995 Standard
for a High Performance Serial Bus.
Fully interoperable with FireWire ® and i.LINK ®
implementations of IEEE 1394-1995.
Reports cable power fail interrupt when voltage at
CPS ball falls below 7.5 V.
Provides separate cable bias and driver termination
voltage supply for port.
Other Features
48-ball VTFSBGAC package.
Single 3.3 V supply operation.
Data interface to link-layer controller provided
through 2/4/8 parallel lines at 50 Mbits/s.
25 MHz crystal oscillator and PLL provide a
50 MHz link-layer controller clock as well as trans-
mit/receive data at 100 Mbits/s, 200 Mbits/s, and
400 Mbits/s.
Multiple separate package signals provided for
analog and digital supplies and grounds.
Features
Provides one fully compliant cable port at
100 Mbits/s, 200 Mbits/s, and 400 Mbits/s.
Fully supports 1394 Open HCI requirements.
Supports arbitrated short bus reset to improve
utilization of the bus.
Supports ack-accelerated arbitration and fly-by con-
catenation.
Supports connection debounce.
Supports multispeed packet concatenation.
Description
The Agere Systems FW801BF device provides the
analog physical layer functions needed to imple-
ment a one-port node in a cable-based IEEE 1394-
1995 and IEEE 1394a-2000 network.
The cable port incorporates two differential line trans-
ceivers. The transceivers include circuitry to monitor
the line conditions as needed for determining con-
nection status, for initialization and arbitration, and
for packet reception and transmission. The PHY is
designed to interface with a link-layer controller
(LLC).