MIPI Demo Day Taipei
11 September 2024
Education Sessions
In addition to the 14 member companies showcasing their innovative solutions at Demo Day Taipei on 11 September 2024, MIPI Working Group chairs and technical experts presented education sessions focused on recent developments with MIPI I3C®, MIPI CSI‑2® and MIPI A‑PHY®.
Presentations are available to download below.
A Preview of the Upcoming MIPI I3C v1.2 and Techniques for Testing and Debugging I3C Implementations
Presenters: Michele Scarlatella and Jonathan Georgino
This presentation offers a preview of the new features, updates and clarifications coming in the next release of the MIPI I3C® specification (v1.2), explaining the rationale and use cases that led to the development of these upcoming features. The presentation also dives into several techniques, tools and tips for testing and debugging I3C implementations, including physical layer/electrical verification, firmware/device driver testing, and verifying protocols on top of I3C.
Presenters
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Michele Scarlatella
I3C Technical Consultant to MIPI Alliance
As a long-time contributor to the MIPI I3C specification, Michele currently serves as an IoT technical consultant for MIPI Alliance, leading the IoT-Embedded Systems Interest Group. Formerly, he spent 18 years at STMicroelectronics covering multiple senior roles including director of technology and system architecture within the Microcontroller & ICs Division, and director within the central marketing team for secure microcontrollers. Michele began his career in basic scientific research and academia at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Michele holds three patents and has published more than 50 scientific papers.
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Jonathan Georgino
Founder & CTO, Binho LLC
Member, I3C Working GroupJonathan Georgino is the founder and CTO of Binho LLC. He is passionate about developing cutting-edge tools to enhance the developer experience and reduce time to market. A veteran of several San Francisco Bay Area hardware startups, he enjoys wearing many hats and doing whatever it takes to bring high-quality products to market, from proof-of-concept through mass production. Above all, he wants to share his enthusiasm for developing advanced embedded systems with as many other engineers as possible.
The Latest Developments with the MIPI A-PHY Specifications, Reference Compliance Test Suite and Compliance Program
Presenters: Edo Cohen, Raj Kumar Nagpal, Kevin Kershner and Yash Pathak
With the first MIPI A-PHY® products entering the automotive market, this two-part presentation provides an update on recent A-PHY developments within MIPI:
- MIPI A-PHY Working Group co-chairs present the status of the A-PHY specifications, providing insight on the recently released A-PHY v2.0.
- MIPI A-PHY Test and Compliance leads provide an overview of the recently released A-PHY Reference Compliance Test Suite (CTS) and the current status of the A-PHY Compliance Program. With specific focus on A-PHY electrical testing, this session highlights key requirements from the A-PHY test specifications, explains the general architecture of the A-PHY Compliance Program, and highlights upcoming test events.
Presenters
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Edo Cohen
VP Automotive Products, Valens Semiconductor
Co-chair, MIPI A-PHY Working Group
Co-vice chair, MIPI Technical Steering GroupEdo is vice president of automotive products at Valens Semiconductor, spearheading standardization activities. He has more than 30 years of experience as a system engineer, specializing in system architecture, technical specifications, definition and execution. Edo is also co-chair of the MIPI A-PHY Working Group and co-vice chair of the MIPI Technical Steering Group. Prior to Valens, Edo was a system architect at Intel, heading activities in wearables and IoT.
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Raj Kumar Nagpal
Senior Architect R&D Engineer, Synopsys
Co-Chair, MIPI A-PHY Working Group
Chair, MIPI D-PHY Working Group
Chair, MIPI PHY Steering GroupRaj Kumar Nagpal has more than 25 years of research and development experience in various fields of electronics, including RF engineering, high-speed serial links, signal integrity, power integrity and product validation. His work at Synopsys focuses on high-speed serial links architecture/system-level modeling, as well as signal integrity and power integrity domains of high-speed serial links. Raj has a master of engineering degree in microwave electronics from the University of Delhi and earned his bachelor of technology degree in electronics and communication from Nagpur University.
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Kevin Kershner
Solution Architect, Keysight Technologies
Member, MIPI A-PHY Working GroupAfter receiving his BSEE from UCLA, Kevin has been working in the test & measurement industry for over 18 years. With a wealth of experience as an applications engineer, he specializes in signal integrity validation for a variety of standards including USB, DDR, PCIe and Automotive SerDes. In his current role, he is the solution architect and planner for automotive SerDes test solutions at Keysight.
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Yash Pathak
Project Manager, BitifEye
Member, MIPI A-PHY Working GroupYash Pathak is a project manager at BitifEye Digital Test Solutions, where his team is developing automotive SerDes receiver test solutions. Previously, he actively developed receiver test solutions for HDMI 2.1. Yash completed his master’s in information technology at the University of Stuttgart, focusing on micro-electronics and power electronics.
What’s New and What’s Next with MIPI CSI-2
Presenter: Tom Kopet
Since its initial release in 2005 and subsequent mass adoption within the mobile market, MIPI CSI-2® has undergone numerous updates to maintain its status as the de-facto embedded camera interface for smartphones and to enable its adoption into the compute, automotive and IoT markets. This presentation provides insight into some of the key features that have been added to CSI-2 in recent releases, followed by a preview of new features planned for the upcoming CSI-2 v4.2 and v4.5 releases.
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Tom Kopet
Chair, MIPI Camera Working Group
Senior Principal Systems Design Engineer, onsemiTom is chair of the MIPI Camera Working Group and a senior principal systems design engineer in the onsemi Intelligent Sensing Group. He has over 45 years of industry experience and has been an active participant in MIPI throughout most of its existence. As chair of the Camera Working Group, Tom helps manage MIPI’s camera specification portfolio, including the development of the Camera Serial Interface-2 (MIPI CSI-2) specification, and associated subgroups to address imaging applications in mobile, compute, automotive, factory automation and other product sectors.