The IEEE 1394 and fieldbuses
Jian Zhang · Industrial Instrumentation & Automation · 2002
The existing fieldbuses will hardly meet the requiements of the increasing communication in the industrial fields.The IEEE 1394(firewire),first introduced into the multimedium communication on a PC basis ,has the characteristics of plug and play,high speed,relative low cost,ease of use and so on.It will become a potential industrial fieldbus standard.In this paper,the feasibility of using this firewire as a fieldbus is discussed from the view of its protocol framework.Its disadvantages are also pointed out.