The Software WG is a group of software experts responsible for coordinating software-related activities within the MIPI Alliance, and insuring MIPI Interfaces can be easily into the driver framework of Operating Systems.
The Software WG is not directly releasing specifications. The group provides expertise to other MIPI Working Groups, and recommendations to the MIPI Board of Directors. Such recommendations may scale from punctual short term actions to the creation of Investigation Groups or Working Groups. The Software WG has in particular been instrumental in the creation of the DDB WG and the IMF WG, later merged into the PLF WG.
The Software Working Group's primary focus is on Operating Systems for Smartphone, such as Linux and Symbian OS. To a lesser extent, the Working Group investigations also cover RTOS and proprietary software frameworks.
Since the creation of DDB, IMF and PLF Working Groups, the Software WG is on-hold, to enable software experts to entirely focus on the release of these key software specifications.
The Software WG was created at MIPI Alliance launch meeting in Sophia Antipolis March 2004, with the initial mission of releasing software specifications. Its mission was reviewed at the end of 2005 to reflect the need for a cross-WG entity coordinating MIPI software activities. One of the Software WG main achievements is the creation of the DDB WG and IMF WG.
Thierry Vuillaume, ST-Ericsson
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Group is inactive since the creation of the IMF WG. At that time [July 2007], the following companies were participating: Intel, Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NXP Semiconductors, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments