MIPI Alliance specifications serve six fundamental application areas:
- Physical layer applications: A family of high-speed physical layers to serve essential interconnection needs in a device
- Multimedia applications: Protocols for cameras and imaging, displays, touch, and audio
- Chip-to-chip/IPC applications: Protocol layers for chip-to-chip or interprocessor communications (IPC)
- Control and data applications: Protocol layers to manage lower-speed components
- Debug and trace applications: Tools for debugging embedded systems throughout the development life cycle
- Software integration applications: Tools that streamline software integration of components in mobile-connected devices