New FireWire Bus Driver Package

AVT 1394 Bus Driver Package

Allied Vision Technologies recently released the AVT 1394 Bus Driver package for Windows. The AVT 1394 Bus Driver eliminates the existing speed limitations of the original Windows driver with 1394b.

The AVT 1394 Bus Driver Package contains an alternative 1394 bus driver that is compliant to the native OHCI 1394 bus driver provided with Microsoft Windows. This means unlike other proprietary 1394 bus drivers that are incompatible to the one provided with Microsoft Windows, existing custom 1394 device drivers (e.g. for hard disks) will continue to work with the AVT Bus Driver.

Additionally, in combination with AVT cameras the AVT 1394 bus driver can be used with 1394 camera drivers provided by 3rd-party solutions like Cognex’s Vision Pro, or MATROX’s MIL, as well as the CMU ( Carnegie Mellon University) 1394 camera driver.
AVT 1394b cameras will therefore run at full S800 data rate (800Mbps) under Windows Vista and XP (SP2/SP3) while also supporting other non camera Firewire devices. This is only possible because the AVT 1394 bus driver eliminates the existing speed limitations of the original Windows driver.

When installed the driver replaces the existing 1394 card driver. The installation and de-installation of the driver can be performed via an easy to use driver install tool that is part of the package.

Supported Operating Systems
  - Windows Vista  SP1
  - Windows XP    SP2/SP3
  - Windows 2000 SP4



Key features of the AVT 1394 bus driver:
- Optimized for high-throughput, low CPU load and fault-tolerant operation
- Can be used with 32-bit Windows operating systems Vista, XP, and 2000 only
- Supports all AVT 1394 cameras
- Supports all current IEEE 1394 standards (1394a and 1394b)
- Supports OHCI-compliant host controllers
- Implementation conforms to the PCI driver model defined by the Windows Driver Model
- No licensing fee when used with AVT 1394 cameras


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