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Ian Smith, MIPI Alliance Technical Content Consultant: 23 April 2026
At the 2026 embedded world Exhibition & Conference in Nuremberg, a series of conference presentations and show-floor demonstrations highlighted how MIPI interfaces are transforming embedded systems.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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Lattice Semiconductor: 12 August 2020
As designers are challenged to integrate an increasing number of sensors in products, aggregating different data streams from dissimilar sensors (e.g., imaging cameras, lidar, radar) is the new normal for input/output-(I/O) constrained application...
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Mohamed Hafed, Ph.D., CEO at Introspect Technology: 18 May 2020
The latest trend for semiconductor device manufacturers is to add several high-speed MIPI® specification-based ports to a single device. This enables feature-rich implementations of imaging- and display-intensive applications, although it also poses...
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Sakari Ailus, MIPI CCS Tools Developer: 13 February 2020
For developers whose work involves the implementation and control of image sensors, MIPI Alliance’s recently released version of its MIPI Camera Command Set (MIPI CCS℠) enables greater flexibility, faster time to market and supports more advanced...
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Hezi Saar, MIPI Alliance Board Member: 28 January 2020
Rapidly emerging automotive technology is generating new demands for common standards in cameras and displays, essential components for both advanced driving assistance, autonomous vehicles and infotainment for years to come. The MIPI Alliance is already...
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Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 2 January 2020
Implementers of the most widely used camera interface in mobile and other markets now have a new toolset to support their interoperability and conformance efforts. The MIPI Camera Working Group recently released conformance test suites (CTSs) for the...
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Haran Thanigasalam, Chair of the MIPI Camera Working Group: 27 September 2019
One of the challenges we humans have is that our ability to perceive things around us and to make sense of the world relies on abstractions based upon mental constructs. It’s a limited capability. And what we have come to realize is that enabling...
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