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    by Douglas Dixon

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Digital Video Editing References  (FireWire / DV)  
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Standards Organizations


  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
        www.nist.gov
  • International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
        www.iso.org
  • International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
        www.iec.ch
  • International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
        www.itu.int
  • European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA)
        www.ecma-international.org

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PC Storage Formats


SDHC Cards -- SD 2.0 High Capacity

   

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PC Interface / Communications Formats


PC External Interfaces

External Data Interface Mbps  MBps
USB  12 Mbps  1.5
USB 2.0 (High Speed) 480 Mbps  60
USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed) 5 Gbps 640
1394 (Firewire)  400 Mbps  50
1394b  800 Mbps  100
eSATA 1.5 Gb/s  1200 Mbps  150
eSATA 3 Gb/s  2400 Mbps  300
Express Card 2.5 Gbps 320
Thunderbolt 2 x 10 Gbps 2 x 1280

PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect / PCI Express (PCI-e)

           
        PCI-SIG - PCI Express - PCI-X 2.0

  • PCI Express bidirectional, and faster then the older PCI and AGP interfaces
  • guarantees each device dedicated bandwidth through the system controller
  • slots are defined by their bandwidth, or number of data lanes - 1, 4, 8, 16 lanes
  • one card can support 1 to 32 lanes at 250 MB/sec each, up to 8 GB/sec
  • PCI Express x1 about twice as fast as PCI
  • 4-lane slot can transfer data at up to 1 GBps 
  • PCI Express x8 is around the speed of the fastest AGP
        up to 2 GBps - almost 2X 133MHz PCI-X slot at max throughput just over 1 GBps
  • previous PCI Extended, PCI-X

PCI-SIG - PCI Special Interest Group    www.pcisig.com
Apple             www.apple.com/powermac/pciexpress.html    
Intel               www.intel.com/technology/pciexpress/devnet    
Wikipedia     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-Express

SATA -- Serial ATA / eSATA -- External SATA

       

  • Designed to replace the older ATA and SCSI formats, offering higher performance with ease of connection
  • ATA drives low cost, high capacity
  • Internal data rates reaching up to 75 MB/sec, USB and 1394 interface rates are bottleneck
  • Internal: SATA 1.5 Gb/sec (150 MB/sec) or SATA 3 Gb/sec (300 MB/sec)
  • External: eSATA with more robust cables and connections (multiple insertion , shielded)
        Electrical Static Discharge (ESD) , Electro Magnetic Interference

Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO)    www.sata-io.org
    www.serialata.org
Wikipedia     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA

Infrared Data Association
    www.irda.org

USB Implementers Forum, Inc. (USB-IF)
    www.usb.org

1394 Trade Association (FireWire)
    www.1394ta.com


RFID


RFID Technical Institute Inc. (RTI)
    www.rfidtech.com

International RFID Business Association (RFIDba)
    www.rfidbusiness.org

EPCglobal US
    www.epcglobalus.org

GS1 US Inc. -- was Uniform Code Council Inc.
    www.gs1us.org

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