Dr.J.K.R.Sastry et al, Dept of Computer Science Engg. have authored a paper was published in International Transactions on Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering

With the flowering of the electronic age, fast and direct communications between computers, peripherals, and a variety of embedded devices are vital. Communication is necessary for achieving

exchange of data between Hardware, Software and both that are in existence within a single system or on multiple systems The standards like firewire help in establishing communication between the embedded systems when tailor made for a specific application. In this paper a revised architecture of the firewire standard is presented that supports growing technological layered architectures by modifying the design of the same to be suitable for any of the applications. 

Key Words: Embedded systems, firewire, CAN, BACnet, isochronous, asynchronous transfers