4 min read
Enrico Carrieri and Matthew Schnoor: 7 August 2024
MIPI Debug Over I3C℠ has always been a specification for performing debug over the MIPI I3C® and MIPI I3C Basic℠ interfaces. Now, in conjunction with its latest update, the MIPI Debug specification has a new name to match its crucial role in the...
2 min read
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...
5 min read
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
5 min read
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...
4 min read
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...
1 min read
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...
2 min read
Rajesh Bhaskar, MIPI-JEDEC Liaison for I3C/JESD403, and Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation: 29 July 2020
JEDEC Solid State Technology Association (JEDEC) and MIPI Alliance have enjoyed a long liaison relationship of collaboration, as the two organizations serve some similar but also different applications and ecosystems. When we work together closely—as in...
1 min read
Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 7 February 2020
Interested in an in-depth discussion of the I3C ecosystem and a look at the new features in MIPI I3C® v1.1? Join I3C Working Group Chair Ken Foust (Intel) for MIPI's second webinar of 2020, "Beyond Sensors: What's New in MIPI I3C v.1.1," on Wednesday, 12...
3 min read
Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 16 January 2020
I see Version 1.0 as setting a new baseline. We came together to make an interface that would dramatically simplify the integration of sensors and...
2 min read
Rob Gough, Chair of the MIPI Software Working Group: 24 July 2019
The MIPI Discovery and Configuration (MIPI DisCoSM) Base Specification, which simplifies the software integration of external devices in mobile and mobile-influenced systems, now forms the basis of a new specification for integrating MIPI I3C® components.
1 min read
Several months ago, MIPI I3C BasicSM, a subset of the MIPI I3C bus interface, was made available to the broader developer community without MIPI membership to foster greater interoperability and innovation in industries beyond mobile, including IoT and...
2 min read
Sharmion Kerley, MIPI Director of Marketing and Membership: 14 March 2019
At SEMI’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FLEX) and MEMS & Sensors Technical Congress (MSTC) conference last month in Monterey, Calif., much of the buzz surrounded the astonishing projected growth in the demand for sensors in virtually everything, from such...
1 min read
.jpg?width=30&name=FOUST%20KEN%20%20(6).jpg){kind=small}
Ken Foust, Chair of the MIPI I3C Working Group and MIPI I3C Basic Ad Hoc Working Group: 11 December 2018
When it was released in January 2017, the MIPI I3C specification came as a big relief to developers struggling to keep up with the proliferation of sensors in smartphones, semi-autonomous vehicles, drones and other mobile-connected products. From the...
1 min read
Christina Slape, MIPI Senior Communications Manager: 17 October 2018
In conjunction with the MIPI Member Meeting #49 in Seoul, the Sensor Working Group hosted the MIPI I3C® Interop Workshop on 15-16 October. The event drew 19 representatives from eight member companies.
"MIPI's I3C workshops help members ensure...