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Dervla O'Reilly, MIPI Senior Event Manager: 22 November 2023
You're invited to join us on 27-29 November for MIPI's Camera Week webinar series–two webinars exploring the system architecture implications of using MIPI CSI‑2® over C‑PHY℠ and D‑PHY℠, and a member use case on how CSI-2 can deliver optimum image...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 26 October 2023
More than a hundred representatives from 32 member companies met last week in the vibrant city of Osaka, Japan, for MIPI Alliance Member Meeting #64, a full week of individual and joint sessions among more than a dozen MIPI groups, including the...
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Legacy protocols for board-level communication are no longer sufficient for the new requirements presented by the electronics industry after its recent years of significant evolution. MIPI I3C® is an interface that closes the gaps and addresses the need...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 10 October 2023
MIPI closed the third quarter of the year with 388 members and the highest number of membership upgrades since 2018. From 1 July to 30 September, the Alliance welcomed seven Adopter members, along with two companies that upgraded to Contributor-level...
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Enrico Carrieri, Chair of the MIPI Debug Working Group: 28 September 2023
A new version of the publicly available MIPI SneakPeek Protocol (MIPI SPP℠)–v2.1, released in May–is the latest step in MIPI’s advancement of a framework for secure debug communication.
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 21 September 2023
First published in August 2021, the MIPI white paper, "An Introductory Guide to MIPI Automotive SerDes Solutions (MASS℠)" provides an overview of MIPI’s standardized automotive connectivity framework for high‑performance sensors and displays, and...
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Philip Hawkes and Rick Wietfeldt, MIPI Security Working Group Co-Chairs: 7 September 2023
The aim of the MIPI Security Framework is to add end-to-end security to applications that leverage existing MIPI specifications. Initially focused on MIPI CSI-2® image sensor applications in automotive, this framework is designed to enable authentication...
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Nadav Banet, Lead, MIPI Camera Adaptation Layer Subgroup: 30 August 2023
With the introduction of a new MIPI A-PHY® Protocol Adaptation Layer (MIPI PAL℠) for SPI and added features to another PAL for MIPI Camera Serial Interface 2 (MIPI CSI-2®), MIPI continues to expand and enhance the ways in which automotive designers can...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 9 August 2023
MIPI Camera Serial Interface 2 (CSI-2®) further secures its place as the preferred image sensor interface by the extended automotive ecosystem as part of a liaison relationship announced jointly today between MIPI Alliance and the Automotive SerDes...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 13 July 2023
MIPI Alliance has wrapped up a busy second quarter in 2023, delivering eight new specifications, hosting a collaborative and productive Member Meeting in San Jose, and welcoming a dozen new Adopter members, along with three companies upgrading to...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 6 July 2023
As MIPI closed out the first half of 2023 with double-digit specification adoptions and notable progress on key initiatives, MIPI Board and Contributor members were intent on maintaining that momentum as they met last week in San Jose, Calif., for MIPI...
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As MIPI Alliance marks its 20th anniversary this year, MIPI specifications continue to advance and be leveraged in new applications within mobile and mobile-influenced adjacent industries, such as automotive and IoT. And along with this momentum, there...
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Matthew Schnoor, MIPI Software Working Group: 5 June 2023
Three new updates to specifications developed by the MIPI Software Working Group have recently become available: MIPI I3C HCI℠ v1.2, MIPI DisCo℠ for I3C® v1.1 and MIPI DisCo℠ for NIDnT℠ v1.1.
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Dervla O'Reilly, MIPI Senior Event Manager: 25 May 2023
Updated 8 June 2023: Registration for MIPI DevCon 2023 in San Jose unfortunately did not rise to a level that would create a successful experience for attendees and participants, and the event was canceled. We appreciate the support of speakers, sponsors...
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Sakari Ailus, MIPI CCS Tools Developer: 23 May 2023
Driver development historically has been a cumbersome and expensive burden for designers of systems for smartphones, personal computers, wearables, the IoT, automobiles and other devices. In the absence of common drivers, information about the properties...
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The MIPI A-PHY Compliance Pilot Program is now shifting into its next phase, with a more extensive testing event to be hosted by Eurofins Digital Testing at a lab in Belgium on 11 May. The event will test DUTs (devices under test) against more of the...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 6 April 2023
The first quarter of 2023 brought new additions throughout the MIPI Alliance membership. Google LLC became the Alliance’s newest Promoter member, while 14 Adopter members and four new Contributors were added to the membership roster from 1 January to 31...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 20 March 2023
The first MIPI Alliance Member Meeting of 2023, held earlier this month in Lisbon, Portugal, brought together Board and Contributor members from around the world for a full week of collaboration within 14 groups, along with the opportunity to help mark...
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As broad and varied as the IoT product spectrum may be, a critical attribute shared by a vast majority of these devices is the absolute need for power efficiency.
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 21 February 2023
MIPI Alliance specifications will be in the spotlight next month at the 21st annual embedded world Exhibition & Conference, with two dedicated MIPI education tracks and nine total sessions focused on MIPI specifications.
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 15 February 2023
At MIPI’s first event of 2023, the co-chairs of the MIPI Security Working Group, Philip Hawkes and Rick Wietfeldt, provided a comprehensive introduction to the upcoming MIPI Security Framework, including an overview of specifications slated to be...
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Peter Lefkin, MIPI Executive Director: 17 January 2023
With MIPI marking its 20th anniversary this year, it’s an ideal time to reflect on the tremendous growth and impact of our Alliance. Members’ support of specification development and implementation, across an array of ecosystems, continues to expand year...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 9 January 2023
MIPI Alliance reached a new membership milestone in the fourth quarter of 2022, closing out the year with an all-time high of 423 member companies, including a Contributor upgrade and 15 new members from 1 October to 31 December.
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Matthew Schnoor, MIPI Software Working Group: 19 December 2022
The recently released and publicly available MIPI I3C Transfer Command Response Interface (MIPI I3C TCRI℠ ) specification defines standard transfer command and transfer response structures that MIPI I3C controller implementations can use as part of an...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 2 November 2022
More than a hundred members from 35 MIPI Board and Contributor companies met last month at Member Meeting North America #61 to collaborate in working group sessions, learn more about the latest MIPI Alliance initiatives and participate in member events,...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 11 October 2022
The third quarter of the year pushed MIPI Alliance membership to an all-time high of 408 companies, with the addition of 13 Adopters and two new Contributors, as well as one Contributor upgrade, from 1 July to 30 September.
We look forward to working...
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Dervla O'Reilly, MIPI Senior Event Manager: 4 October 2022
This year’s virtual MIPI DevCon drew nearly 300 attendees for two days of live sessions presented by working group leaders and members sharing MIPI specification updates, technical insights, implementation experiences and use cases. If you missed any of...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 27 September 2022
“By all measures, the event was a great success.”
That’s how Jonathan Georgino, founder of Binho LLC, described the recent MIPI I3C Interop Workshop in a post for his company’s blog. Other participants echoed his sentiments in a 27 September MIPI...
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Sakari Ailus, MIPI CCS Tools Developer: 22 September 2022
In the context of the IoT, there are many applications that use machine vision to perform their functions. The range of applications is far-reaching—drones, surveillance cameras, autonomous moving robots and industrial robots are just some of the...
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Dervla O'Reilly, MIPI Senior Event Manager: 8 September 2022
MIPI DevCon 2022 is right around the corner, and this year’s lineup of sessions and expert speakers promises to deliver new technical insights and valuable guidance to developers, engineers and system architects implementing MIPI specifications in...
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Enrico Carrieri, Chair of the MIPI Debug Working Group: 4 August 2022
Reliance on legacy methods of probing buses and signals with dedicated, proprietary debug and test equipment across layers can be impractical. It's often too disjointed, too complex and too costly—particularly with so many different components working...
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Since its introduction in 2007, MIPI UniPro® has been incorporated into multiple versions of the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association's Universal Flash Storage (UFS) standard as its transport and link layers, along with MIPI M-PHY® serving as its...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 11 July 2022
MIPI closed out the second quarter of the year with 393 members – marking a new Q2 membership high for the Alliance. From 1 April to 30 June, 25 new Adopter members joined MIPI, while five additional companies upgraded to Contributor-level membership.
We...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 28 June 2022
The excitement of returning to in-person collaboration was evident earlier this month as MIPI Board and Contributor members gathered in Munich, 13-17 June, for MIPI Alliance Member Meeting #60.
The first face-to-face (F2F) meeting since 2019, the...
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To satisfy the demand for both advanced safety features and better driver and passenger experiences, automakers are adding more displays, larger in size and with greater resolutions, to the digital cockpit. This trend has created a need for more...
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Dervla O'Reilly, MIPI Senior Event Manager: 20 April 2022
Registration is open for two upcoming events focused on MIPI I3C® and the publicly available MIPI I3C Basic℠. For those interested in learning more about how the utility and bus specification meets key IoT requirements, you'll want to secure your spot at...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 13 April 2022
Over the past year, MIPI has adopted a record number of new and updated interface specifications for mobile, the Internet of Things (IoT), automotive and related industries. Three key 2021 releases in particular have garnered significant media interest...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 7 April 2022
MIPI Alliance kicked off the new year by welcoming 20 Adopter members and one Contributor member from 1 January to 31 March.
We look forward to working with these companies joining the 350+ MIPI members worldwide developing and implementing MIPI...
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Following the recent announcement by longtime chair Joel Huloux (STMicroelectronics) of his upcoming retirement, the MIPI Alliance Board of Directors has appointed new leadership for the first time in nearly a decade. As detailed in a 5 April 2022 press...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 23 March 2022
A recent collaboration between the MIPI I3C Working Group and the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has resulted in a new USB-IF specification that dramatically expands the possible use cases and ecosystem for both the Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 10 February 2022
A major update to the world’s most widely implemented embedded camera and imaging interface delivers a scalable foundation upon which next-generation artificial intelligence and machine‑vision systems can enhance human-device interaction. Version 4.0 of...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 31 January 2022
To kick off the new year, MIPI Alliance recently announced the adoption of A-PHYSM v1.1, the latest version of the automotive serializer-deserializer (SerDes) physical-layer interface, doubling the maximum downlink data rate from 16 Gbps to 32 Gbps,...
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Dervla O'Reilly, MIPI Senior Event Manager: 20 January 2022
Interested in learning more about the updates in the recently released MIPI A-PHY℠ v1.1? Would you like to weigh in on future development of the SerDes interface? You'll have the opportunity for both at next week's MIPI A-PHY Automotive Industry Forum.
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Peter Lefkin, MIPI Executive Director: 13 January 2022
Propelled by the momentum of a record-breaking year of specification adoptions and membership growth, along with other major strategic advancements, MIPI Alliance embarks upon 2022 securely positioned to continue advancing mobile, IoT, automotive and...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 11 January 2022
Membership continued its upward trend in Q4, closing out the year with 10 new Adopter members and one Contributor member joining MIPI Alliance from 1 October to 31 December. In total, MIPI welcomed 84 new members in 2021.
We look forward to working with...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 5 January 2022
It's been more than 12 months since we published our last blog post highlighting popular IoT developer kits that support MIPI camera and display interfaces. Since then, a number of new kits have been launched that support other MIPI interfaces, including
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Enrico Carrieri, Chair of the MIPI Debug Working Group: 29 December 2021
For those involved in debug and trace projects, one of the fundamental challenges is how to extract greater volumes of trace data from ever more complex devices, using ever-increasing higher-speed serial interfaces. This challenge is driven by the...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 21 December 2021
MIPI Alliance's versatile M-PHY® physical-layer (PHY) interface offers engineers configuration choices and the ability to address multiple markets and use cases with designs for interconnecting components in advanced 5G smartphones, wearables, PCs and...
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Hiroo Takahashi, MIPI Camera Service Extensions Subgroup Lead: 2 December 2021
A revolution in automotive electronics is accelerating the demand for more onboard sensors (camera/radar/lidar) and displays with higher performance. Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving systems (ADS) are generating ever...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 2 November 2021
Planning is well underway for the MIPI Automotive Workshop, coming up on 17 November 2021. The half-day virtual event, designed to provide a comprehensive look at the latest MIPI automotive specifications and initiatives, will benefit automotive...
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Enrico Carrieri, Chair of the MIPI Debug Working Group: 28 October 2021
The “MIPI Debug & Trace Connector Recommendations” white paper has been an invaluable resource for the global electronics developer community since its initial release in 2007. A new edition of the white paper (renamed from “MIPI Alliance Recommendations...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 26 October 2021
With 388 members at the close of the third quarter, MIPI Alliance continues its record membership year, welcoming two Contributor members and 24 new or returning Adopter members from 1 July to 30 September 2021.
We look forward to working with the...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 21 October 2021
The MIPI I3C® and I3C BasicSM specifications define scalable, medium-speed, utility and control bus interfaces for streamlined, cost-efficient connection of peripheral devices and sensors with application processors. As the broadly welcomed successor to...
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Dervla O'Reilly, MIPI Senior Event Manager: 18 October 2021
Last month's MIPI DevCon 2021 brought together a global network of developers and implementers of MIPI specifications to share their knowledge and experiences in specification implementation, industry advancements and trends in the broader MIPI...
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As announced earlier this week, development is now complete on the next version of the MIPI A-PHYSM SerDes interface, which will double the maximum available downlink data rate from 16 Gigabits per second (Gbps) to 32 Gbps to support evolving...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 15 September 2021
Automotive technology is advancing faster than ever, and electronic components have never been more central to the design and success of new vehicles. Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and rapidly evolving in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) platforms...
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Dervla O'Reilly, MIPI Senior Event Manager: 8 September 2021
MIPI DevCon 2021 is only a few weeks away, and conference speakers are currently working to prepare informative and engaging presentations for the 28-29 September virtual event. With an expected global audience of developers, engineers, system architects...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 2 September 2021
MIPI Alliance’s family of specialized, point-to-point, physical layer (PHY) serial interfaces support a variety of chip-to-chip, chip-to-camera and chip-to-display applications that require high bandwidth, low power and low electromagnetic interference...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 17 August 2021
The MIPI Display Serial Interface 2 (MIPI DSI-2℠) specification is already deployed in many of the world’s handsets, smartwatches, virtual reality headsets, laptops, tablets and automobiles. Delivering significant improvements to user experience and...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 10 August 2021
In this latest installment of our MIPI in IoT blog series, we'll examine the use of MIPI specifications in the smart home market, including a closer look at the features of key MIPI specifications in IoT and how they can meet the specific requirements of...
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Based on a recommendation from the MIPI Technical Steering Group (TSG), the MIPI Alliance Board of Directors late last year directed all working groups to initiate the replacement of offensive terms in MIPI specifications and supporting documents, to be...
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As announced on 13 July, MIPI A-PHY v1.0 was recently adopted by IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity.
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Dervla O'Reilly, MIPI Senior Event Manager: 12 July 2021
Featuring more than a dozen sessions focused on MIPI specifications in mobile, automotive and IoT applications, as well as new camera and display specifications, security initiatives, MIPI I3C® use cases and more, this year's virtual MIPI DevCon will...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 6 July 2021
MIPI is pleased to welcome 26 Adopter members joining the Alliance from 1 April to 30 June 2021, along with two companies upgrading to Contributor membership. The highest-ever percentage of member companies renewed their memberships for 2021, and a new...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 29 June 2021
Update: MIPI A-PHY was adopted as an IEEE standard in June 2021 and is also available as IEEE 2977-2021.
To provide additional support to developers working with the MIPI A-PHY℠ v1.0 specification, the A-PHY Working Group has released an Application Note...
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The new MIPI I3C Host Controller Interface (MIPI I3C HCI℠) v1.1 specification was recently released to MIPI Alliance members as well as nonmembers, with new functionality that facilitates broader use of the MIPI I3C® interface and helps developers and...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 9 June 2021
Continuing the tradition of MIPI Alliance members honoring the contributions and achievements of their peers, MIPI hosted a virtual ceremony on 9 June to recognize the 2020 recipients of the MIPI Alliance Membership Awards.
The awards are presented...
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James Goel, Co-Vice Chair of the MIPI Display Working Group and Chair of the Technical Steering Group: 27 May 2021
Current trends in automotive electronics are accelerating the demand for more in-vehicle displays with higher performance. Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving systems (ADS) bring more cameras and sensors, generating richer...
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The scope of the Internet of Things (IoT) is vast, covering numerous consumer and enterprise market sectors. For a closer look at how MIPI Alliance specifications support growth in IoT, we're taking a look at a different IoT market sector each month. In...
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The growing demand for high-performance displays in next-generation automotive and other applications is driving a rapid evolution in display requirements. To help system engineers address those requirements, the leaders of the MIPI Display Working Group...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 27 April 2021
Update: MIPI A-PHY was adopted as an IEEE standard in June 2021 and is also available as IEEE 2977-2021.
MIPI Automotive SerDes Solutions (MASS), a standard framework providing end-to-end connectivity solutions for automotive sensors (camera/lidar/radar)...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 6 April 2021
MIPI Alliance kicked off the year with the addition of 21 Adopter members from 1 January to 31 March. We look forward to working with these companies joining the 300+ MIPI members worldwide developing and implementing MIPI specifications.
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 18 March 2021
The scope of the Internet of Things (IoT) is vast, covering numerous consumer and enterprise market sectors. For a closer look at how MIPI specifications support growth in IoT, we're taking a look at a different IoT market sector each month. In this...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 16 March 2021
Automotive display requirements are evolving rapidly as trends in connectivity, automation, sharing and electrification demand that automakers incorporate a growing number of larger and higher-resolution displays inside their vehicles. The use of...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 11 March 2021
Formed in 2019, the MIPI Security Investigation Group (Security IG) was established to provide recommendations for a scalable, uniform MIPI security framework and ongoing support model, as well as to offer guidance to MIPI working groups on overarching...
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Peter Lefkin, MIPI Executive Director: 1 March 2021
Update: MIPI A-PHY was adopted as an IEEE standard in June 2021 and is also available as IEEE 2977-2021.
MIPI A-PHY℠ v1.0 has now crossed an important milestone on its path toward adoption as an IEEE standard.
On 10 February, the MIPI A-PHY adoption PAR...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 18 February 2021
Update: MIPI A-PHY was adopted as an IEEE standard in June 2021 and is also available as IEEE 2977-2021.
Next-generation vehicles are rewriting the rulebooks when it comes to high-speed data interfaces. With the implementation of advanced driver...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 1 February 2021
The scope of the Internet of Things (IoT) is vast, covering numerous consumer and enterprise market sectors. For a closer look at how MIPI specifications support growth in IoT, we’re launching a new series of blog posts that will focus on a different...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 26 January 2021
Update: MIPI A-PHY was adopted as an IEEE standard in June 2021 and is also available as IEEE 2977-2021.
MIPI Alliance is rolling out a portfolio of Protocol Adaptation Layers (PALs) to support a range of important automotive sensor and display...
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Dervla O'Reilly, MIPI Senior Event Manager: 22 January 2021
Whether you're just getting started with MIPI Debug solutions or you're interested in a more in-depth discussion of MIPI Debug for I3C℠, members of the Debug Working Group will cover it at upcoming webinars on 27 January and 17 February.
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 19 January 2021
We look forward to working with eight companies that joined the Alliance from 1 October to 31 December 2020, joining the 300+ MIPI Alliance members worldwide developing and implementing MIPI specifications.
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Peter Lefkin, MIPI Executive Director: 14 January 2021
MIPI Alliance recently shared its 2020 Year in Review, and it's evident that many of our milestones and accomplishments last year will drive much of our momentum in 2021 and beyond. I encourage you to check out this overview of our activities, and I'm...
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Hezi Saar, MIPI Alliance Board Member: 12 January 2021
Update: MIPI A-PHY was adopted as an IEEE standard in June 2021 and is also available as IEEE 2977-2021.
MIPI interface protocols are widely used in automotive to connect cameras, sensors, displays and other components to automotive systems on chips...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 5 January 2021
Two of the most significant MIPI highlights of 2020 were the eagerly anticipated releases of MIPI RFFE v3.0SM in April and MIPI A-PHYSM v1.0 in September. With the rollout of 5G well underway, and the rapid advancements in ADAS, ADS and IVI automotive...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 21 December 2020
Update: MIPI A-PHY was adopted as an IEEE standard in June 2021 and is also available as IEEE 2977-2021.
Recently MIPI Alliance announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 17 December 2020
The MIPI Alliance-wide team working on the development of MIPI Automotive SerDes SolutionsSM (MASS) was awarded a Silver Vision Award during the AutoSens 2020 Awards Ceremony live-streamed on 10 December.
The Vision Award is designed to recognize "an...
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MIPI Alliance changed the game for integrating cameras and other sensors into mobile devices when it recently introduced CCS Static Data as part of the new MIPI Camera Command Set v1.1 (MIPI CCSSM v1.1) specification. Now CCS Tools is making this...
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Brad Biddle, MIPI Counsel: 12 November 2020
MIPI Alliance periodically receives questions about how its legal policies apply in different circumstances. This post addresses questions we’ve received about how our policies apply to semiconductor IP vendors. It's also designed to explain the existing...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 10 November 2020
In the closing session of MIPI DevCon 2020, a panel of IoT experts convened to assess the current state of the “Internet of Things” and answer fundamental questions such as, “Is the IoT transitioning from hype to reality?”
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 16 October 2020
Next week, MIPI Debug Working Group Chair Enrico Carrieri and working group member Matthew Schnoor will take an in-depth look at the recently released MIPI Debug for I3CSM v1.0, which allows system designers to dynamically debug and test application...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 14 October 2020
Update: MIPI A-PHY was adopted as an IEEE standard in June 2021 and is also available as IEEE 2977-2021.
The MIPI A-PHYSM v1.0 specification, which has been available to MIPI Alliance members since September 2020, is now positioned for wider availability...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 9 October 2020
MIPI Alliance will be bringing technical details on the new MIPI A-PHY℠ and MIPI Automotive SerDes Solutions (MASS℠) to two automotive conferences in the coming weeks. The presentations, at the Automotive SerDes Conference and AutoSens Detroit Edition,...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 6 October 2020
MIPI Alliance would like to welcome 18 companies that joined the Alliance or upgraded their membership from 1 July to 30 September 2020. We look forward to working with these companies joining the 300+ MIPI Alliance members worldwide developing and...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 1 October 2020
The smaller and more power-constrained systems being developed today for the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile devices, automotive and other use cases demonstrate the value of low-bandwidth interfaces for debug and trace. At the same time, the flexibility...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 28 September 2020
Read the new white paper, “MIPI Alliance: Enabling the IoT Opportunity" »
Over the past decade, MIPI specifications have become firmly rooted into the core of smartphones, connecting the sensors, cameras, displays, radios and other components that are...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 25 September 2020
Not only did MIPI DevCon 2020 draw a global audience of nearly 350 attendees on 22-23 September, but the conference presentations and member demos will continue to offer developers and implementers a wealth of resources long after the live event. Whether...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 17 September 2020
Thank you! It’s still surprising to me that I’ve been involved with MIPI...
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Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 15 September 2020
Update: MIPI A-PHY was adopted as an IEEE standard in June 2021 and is also available as IEEE 2977-2021.
Innovations in automotive safety, automation and connectivity, including advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), comprehensive in-vehicle...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 11 September 2020
From 5G to automotive to IoT, the session topics on the MIPI DevCon 2020 Agenda span a range of interests in mobile and beyond. An impressive lineup of speakers – industry experts, MIPI working group leaders and implementers of MIPI specifications – will...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 9 September 2020
Advanced high-resolution cameras and displays are at the core of many new electronic devices, enabling continuously more sophisticated vision-based services and enhanced user experiences. Integrated cameras and displays can now be found in a wide array...
