This is a repeater for the connections of high performance serial bus IEEE-1394. It is designed to the provisions of the 1394-1995, P1394s and OpenHCI enhancements. Two independent ports, up to 400 Mb/s data rate, hot plugging are provided for the maximum peripheral connections. The priimary application of the FireWire repeater is the extension of I/O connectivity at the back panel of personal computers using a low-cost, scalable, high-speed serial interface. The FireWire standard also provides new services such as realtime I/O and live connect.disconnect capability for external devices including disk drives, printers and hand-held peripherals such as scanners and cameras.