Texas Instruments and Unibrain announced an turnkey 1394b (FireWire) development kit. TI has licensed Unibrain’s ubCore version 4.0 FireWire driver suite that will be bundled with TI’s 1394b chipset (TSB82AA2 and TSB81BA3).

The Unibrain driver stack is a set of low-level drivers with a top-down layered structure that provides the physical interface to various 1394 devices. It includes the following features:

• Full and native 1394b support at 800Mbps

• Full 1394b CAT5 (100Mbps) and POF (200Mbps) support

• Complete 1394a and 1394b SBP2 disk support

• Complete 1394a and 1394b IIDC camera support

The ubCore combined with FireAPI (Unibrain's 1394 Development Toolkit), provides a set of functions and tools in kernel or user mode.