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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 4 February 2026
Member companies recently wrapped up the fifth MIPI A-PHY® Compliance Program test event—the first held in Asia—marking another milestone in the program's development. This latest event expanded testing to cover advanced transmitter and receiver test...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 14 January 2026
As the need for security becomes increasingly more critical, MIPI Alliance has continued to broaden its portfolio of standardized solutions, adding two more specifications in late 2025, and continuing work on significant updates to the MIPI Camera...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 21 August 2025
A recent test event marked another milestone in the development of the MIPI A-PHY Compliance Program, as leading test partners convened for a fourth time to perform an in-depth evaluation of A-PHY receiver performance against the requirements defined in...
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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 17 January 2024
Presentations will focus on the use of MIPI camera, PHY and security specifications for ADAS and ADS applications
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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...