Cables & Cable Assemblies

GORE™ FireWire® High Flex Cable Assemblies

FireWire High Flex Cable
GORE™ FireWire® High Flex Cable Assemblies provide motion control and vision systems with reliable interconnects for high performance flex life and signal transmission performance. These assemblies should be used to avoid bit errors in moving FireWire® systems. GORE™ FireWire® High Flex Assemblies provide peace of mind when reliable system performance and equipment uptime are critical.

GORE™ FireWire® High Flex Cables are available in flat and round cable assemblies. Both assemblies incorporate 6-pin connectors to meet the IEEE 1394a electrical requirements (see Technical Specifications Tables 1 and 2).

Reliable Flex Life Performance

GORE™ FireWire® High Flex Round Cable Assemblies have been tested beyond 10 million cycles in rolling flex motions on bend radius of 50 mm. GORE™ FireWire® High Flex Flat Cable Assemblies have been tested beyond 20 million cycles in rolling flex motions on bend radius of 20 mm. These cables showed a stable signal transmission performance during these tests while competitive samples failed.

Technical Specifications (Table 1 and 2)

Characteristic IEEE 1394a IEEE 1394b
Skew 400ps/assy 160ps/assy
Impedence 110+/- 6 Ohm 110+/- 6 Ohm
Crosstalk FEXT, NEXT: less than 5% for 160ps TDT pulse FEXT, NEXT: less than 5% for 160ps TDT pulse

Frequency
(MHz)		 IEEE 1394a
Attenuation
dB/Assembly		 IEEE 1394b
Attenuation
dB/Assembly
 GORE™ FireWire Assembly Attenuation dB/assembly*
100 -2.3 - -2.2
200 -3.2 - -2.75
400 -5.8 -4.1 -3.5
800 - -6.2 -4.7
1000 - -7.5 -5.3

*Test data from a 4.5 m IEEE 1394a assembly

Key Features

  • Available in round or flat cable assemblies
  • Cables can be customized
  • Flat cable is non-particulating for clean room use

Key Benefits

  • Prevents lost data/data integrity problems
  • Longer flex life (beyond 20 million flex cycles)
  • Flat Cable can be used in bend radii down to 20 mm
  • Prevents system downtime
  • Longer use length

Ordering Information

GORE™ FireWire High Flex Flat Cable and Assemblies:*

GORE Part Numbers1
Description		 Lengths
Available (m)
GSC-17-24653-XXX IEEE 1394a flat cable assembly 2.0, 4.5
GSC-06-24737-00 IEEE 1394a bulk flat cable 200 m (minimum)

GORE™ FireWire® High Flex Round Cable and Assemblies:*

GORE Part Numbers1 Description Lengths
Available (m)
GSC-17-24652-XXX IEEE 1394a round cable assembly 2.0, 4.5, 7.7
GSC-17-25038-XXX IEEE 1394b round cable assembly, jack screws 2.0, 5.0
GSC-17-25040-XXX IEEE 1394a round cable assembly, Molex clip 2.0, 5.0
GSC-17-25042-XXX IEEE 1394 bilingual round cable assembly
(jackscrew on 1394b and Molex clip on 1394a)		 2.0, 5.0
GSC-02-24617-00 IEEE 1394a or 1394b bulk round cable 200 m (minimum)

*The above part numbers are designed to meet the IEEE 1394a or IEEE 1394b requirements as noted above.

1The last part of the GORE part number XXX is for length of cable in meters (e.g., a 2 m 1394a round cable assembly would be GSC-17-24652-020).

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