| |
The Laptop Interface Solution
With up to 130 MB/s transfer rate in both directions, the Card Bus delivers the same basic performance that you would expect to find with a high-quality PCI card on a desktop computer - except it's for your laptop! The card is also 100% Plug & Play compatible under Windows and MacOS, and being able to share interrupts. The card itself will only use one interrupt (IRQ) for all functions (audio/MIDI.) The connection between CardBus card and I/O box is established using ordinary firewire cable (closed LAN to IEEE 1394.) The data transfer does not use Firewire protocol, but RME's own proprietary bus protocol. The supplied cable is 15' long (cable length up to 33' has been successfully tested), and a specially designed Repeater can be used to reach cable lengths of up to 66'. The CardBus card does not provide power to the attached I/O-box, so a hi-tech switching power supply is included.
|
