1394 Trade Association Establishes New Installers' Working Group and Software Working Group to Advance the Development of the FireWire Standard.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2003 Rapid Expansion in 2003 Seen Continuing in 2004, with Help from New Committees The 1394 Trade Association today established a pair of new working groups to encourage and accelerate the adoption of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394 standard in the consumer electronics markets and among home entertainment network installers. The new Audio Visual Distribution/Installers Working Group will develop implementation guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. for residential wiring, wall plates, hubs, and structured wiring panels for specialists in planning and installing AV distribution systems in the home. In addition, it will provide a venue for liaison among the organizations and committees that address residential communication cabling. The Software Working Group will develop and coordinate software implementation guidelines for audio/video end equipment. It will focus on expanding 1394 adoption and improving interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. and compatibility. In addition, it will address software implementation methods for minimum AV sub-unit functionality, along with guidelines for compatibility with 1394-1995, 1394a, 1394b (end-equipment) to 1394b (long distance). Software implementation guidelines for AV networking, Universal Plug and Play (UPnP (Universal Plug aNd Play) A family of protocols from the UPnP Forum (www.upnp.org) for automatically configuring devices, discovering services and providing peer-to-peer data transfer over an IP network. ), Home Audio Video Interface (HAVi) and AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C , along with other discover/control schemes will be included under its charter. The committee will interact closely with the A/V (1) (Audio/Video) Refers to equipment and applications that deal with sound and sight. The A/V world includes microphones, tape recorders, audio mixers, still and video cameras, film projectors, slide projectors, VCRs, CD and DVD players/recorders, amplifiers and , Compliance and Interoperability, Networking and other active working groups in the 1394 Trade Association. The new groups were proposed by Cecelia Smith of Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. Inc. and Angela Lee of Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, who serve on the 1394 Trade Association's board of directors. They will conduct their organizational meetings during the next general session of the Trade Association, scheduled for Jan. 19-22, 2004. "The adoption of the 1394 standard in consumer electronics, computers, peripherals and industrial products has been very strong throughout 2003, and these new working groups will further accelerate the adoption of FireWire in the home entertainment network," said James Snider, executive director of the 1394 Trade Association. The 1394 Trade Association is a worldwide organization dedicated to the advancement and enhancement of the IEEE standard. For more information visit www.1394ta.org. |
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