MIPI DSI-2 & VESA Video Compression Drive Performance for Next-Generation Displays
Displays for next-generation smartphones, AR/VR devices, and automotive systems all require more bandwidth than ever before. Using a combination of VESA Display Stream Compression (DSC), MIPI Display Serial Interface (DSI-2), and MIPI C-PHY/D-PHY, designers can achieve display resolutions up to 8K without compromise to video quality, battery life or cost.
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MIPI Deployment in Ultra-low-power Streaming Sensors
Streams of data from higher-speed sensors pose throughput and latency challenges for designers. However, optimizing a design for those criteria can come at the expense of increased power consumption if not conceived and executed carefully. A device like a high-resolution, high-frame-rate home security camera in a non-wired application requiring frequent battery changes or recharging will likely register strong dissatisfaction among most users, even if it delivers its stream at full quality when working. Interfacing streaming sensors with MIPI® helps designers balance performance with power consumption by leveraging various modes of operation: high speed, ultra-low power, or something in between.
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MIPI in Next Generation of AI IoT Devices at the Edge
The history of data processing begins in the 1960’s with centralized on-site mainframes that later evolved into distributed client servers. In the beginning of this century, centralized cloud computing became attractive and began to gain momentum becoming one of the most popular computing tools today. In recent years however, we have seen an increase in the demand for processing at the edge or closer to the source of the data once again.
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It’s Time to Look at FD-SOI (Again)
The emergence of FD-SOI, (fully depleted silicon-on-insulator) and its subsequent maturity over the years, has made it one of the seminal process advancements for low power semiconductor design. Although not as prevalent as the mainstream bulk CMOS process, FD-SOI has provided an important set of benefits to semiconductor product designers. These advances intersect with market demands for devices with more intelligence and better connectivity.
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Towards Self-Driving Cars: MIPI D-PHY Enabling Advanced Automotive Applications
Since the invention of the automobile well over a century ago, car manufacturers have been focused on creating the highest-speed, safest, and most fuel-efficient cars possible. As standards for each of those metrics have reached a peak, manufacturers have incorporated other avenues of differentiation with an eye toward technology, implementing cameras and sensors to create features that would have been science fiction only 20 years ago.
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Dual Mode C-PHY/D-PHY: Enabling Next Generation of VR Displays
What are the challenges for next generation VR displays? What makes the MIPI® interfaces the best fit for VR/AR/MR applications? What does Mixel, Inc. do to combine the different MIPI PHY offerings into a unique, differentiated, flexible solution?
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Demystifying MIPI C-PHY / D-PHY Subsystem
The newest member of the MIPI® PHY family, the C-PHYSM, arrived in October 2014 to a mixture of excitement and apprehension. How would this new C-PHY compare to the MIPI D-PHYSM and M-PHY®? What would differentiate the C-PHY, and would it be compatible enough with the D-PHY so that both could coexist in a hybrid subsystem?
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Turning Cars Into Mobile Devices: MIPI
Everyone remembers their first car – how you could go where you wanted to go, moving faster and going longer distances – you were mobile. Yes, our cars made us mobile, but today’s cars are becoming mobile devices themselves. More than a means of transportation, cars are evolving into complete mobile devices – connecting and connected to the internet, transportation grids, and to each other. MIPI specifications are playing an important role in this transformation just as they have played the key role in unifying the interfaces in the most common mobile device of all – the smartphone.
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MIPI D-PHY RX⁺: An Optimized Test Configuration
With the proliferation of the mobile platform, the accelerating adoption of MIPI® beyond the traditional mobile platform and into safety related applications, testability of MIPI® PHY is becoming a key requirement. While the D-PHY is the MIPI PHY with the widest adoption in the industry today, the RX+ is a D-PHY receiver configuration optimized for full-speed production testing. The presentation will cover an overview of testability challenges in safety related applications, examine the advantages of the RX+ configuration, and compare this configuration to traditionally used D-PHY configurations.
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M-PHY Benefits and Challenges
The MIPI Alliance was created in 2003 to benefit the entire mobile industry by establishing standards for hardware and software interfaces in mobile devices.one critical component of mobile device is the physical layer (PHY). The first PHY specification that the MIPI Alliance released in 2009 was the D-PHY. The D-PHY currently operates up to 1Gbps and support both camera serial interface (CSI-2) and display serial interface (DSI), which are increasingly used in both feature and smartphones.
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A PHY for All Seasons: MIPI M-PHY Takes Center Stage
The curtain is up and the M-PHY specification is taking center stage, positioned handle the many different roles required for a faster, more reliable, physical interface layer (PHY Layer) on mobile devices.
The script for the M-PHY specification was written inside the MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) Alliance by a working group made up of member companies, and set up to expand the capabilities of mobile devices by defining interface standards that will revolutionize the capabilities of the coming generations of mobile products. Faced with an explosion of mobile multimedia devices…..
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