Justin Endo

Justin Endo, Mixel, Inc., MIPI DevCon Steering Committee Chair

Justin Endo, chair of the MIPI DevCon Steering Committee, kicks off the day with a welcome to participants and an overview of the agenda for the two-day virtual event.

Presenter:

Justin  Endo, Mixel's marketing manager, oversees marketing strategy and customer engagement from Mixel's headquarters in San Jose, Calif. In this role, he manages Mixel’s exhibition presence at industry events, the development of press releases and white papers, and the promotion of Mixel’s mixed-signal IP portfolio in various industry media. In addition, he serves as chair of the MIPI Alliance DevCon Steering Committee. He holds a bachelor’s degree with a double major in economics and French from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MBA from The University of Melbourne – Melbourne Business School.

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Peter Lefkin, Executive Director, MIPI Alliance

Peter Lefkin

Get an update on MIPI Alliance priority initiatives in mobile and in beyond-mobile focus areas. Peter Lefkin, MIPI executive director, discusses collaborative efforts within the Alliance and industry, as well as progress toward strategic priorities, including the development of key specifications and resources, education opportunities, outreach and other activities to support the MIPI member ecosystem.

Presenter:

Peter Lefkin has been providing leadership and guidance to the standards development community for more than 20 years. In 2022, he was promoted to executive director of MIPI Alliance, after having served as its managing director since 2011. As MIPI's senior staff executive, he is responsible for all MIPI activities and operations, from strategy development to implementation, and also serves as secretary to the MIPI Alliance Board of Directors.

Peter's background includes previous leadership roles at the American National Standards Institute, Motorola and the IEEE Standards Association. As COO/CFO for IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (IEEE-ISTO), he was instrumental in the formation of multiple standards groups, including the founding of MIPI Alliance in 2003.

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Ariel Lasry, Vice Chair of MIPI A-PHY Working Group
Edo Cohen, Co-Chair of the MIPI A-PHY Working Group, Valens Semiconductor
Raj Kumar Nagpal, Co-Chair, MIPI A-PHY Working Group, Synopsys, Inc.

Learn about the latest developments within MIPI Automotive SerDes Solutions (MASS) – a framework that provides a full-stack, end-to-end sensor/display-to-ECU solution for autonomous driving and ADAS systems, leveraging existing MIPI CSI-2®, DSI-2℠ and VESA eDP/DP protocols running over MIPI A-PHY®. The presentation starts with a quick refresh of A-PHY's newest enhancements and then takes a look at what's to come in v2.0, currently under development. From there, the discussion highlights new and upcoming updates to the MASS framework, such as new protocol adaptation layers for Ethernet, SPI and I3C, and how current development work is setting the stage for additional functional safety features and the introduction of end-to-end security for camera and display data streams.

Ariel Lasry

Presenters:

Ariel Lasry joined Qualcomm in 2021 as director, technical standards. For more than a decade, he has been actively engaged in standardization activities across multiple SDOs including the MIPI Alliance, where he has been an active contributor to multiple working groups since 2009. He currently serves as vice chair for the MIPI A-PHY Working Group.

Prior to his role at Qualcomm, Ariel was chief engineer at Toshiba Electronics Europe in Düsseldorf, where he was responsible for strategic business planning and standardization, and represented Toshiba on the MIPI Alliance Board of Directors from 2012-2020.

Edo Cohen

Edo Cohen is the co-chair of the A-PHY Working Group and an active member of the MIPI Technical Steering Group. Edo has been a member of the MIPI Alliance since 2009, having participated in multiple working groups, and served as the vice chair of the Display Working Group. Since 2017, Edo has been actively engaged in the development of MIPI’s first automotive standard (MIPI A-PHY) and has greatly contributed to its introduction to the market.

Edo is Valens’ vice president ecosystem development, spearheading automotive standardization. Edo brings more than 30 years of experience as a senior system engineer, with extensive knowledge in system architecture, technical specifications, definition, and execution. Prior to Valens, he was a senior system architect at Intel Corporation, heading activities of the wearables and IoT. Previously, Edo was a senior staff system engineer at Marvell Cellular Division, responsible for the company’s cellular processor environment, and held engineering managerial positions at NAMS, Floware, and Alvarion.

Edo holds an MBA and a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Tel Aviv University.

Raj Kumar Nagpal

Raj Kumar Nagpal is senior manager at Synopsys and serves as co-chair of the MIPI A-PHY Working Group, chair of the PHY Steering Group, and chair of the D-PHY Working Group. He 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's 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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Gregor Sievers, Ph.D., Product Manager, dSPACE GmbH

Gregor Sievers

Camera, radar and lidar sensors are essential for autonomous driving, for both in-cabin and exterior sensing. New vehicles have more sensors, higher data rates and enhanced safety/security features that use MIPI interfaces like MIPI A-PHY®, D-PHY^SM and CSI-2®. For hardware and software testing, recording and reprocessing sensor data over MIPI interfaces is essential.

This session presents requirements and solutions for data logging, data management and data reprocessing to achieve end-to-end data-driven development and testing.

Presenter:

Dr. Gregor Sievers is a manager in the engineering services department at dSPACE GmbH, Paderborn, Germany. His work focuses on the validation of systems for autonomous driving. In 2016, he received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Bielefeld University, Germany, for his work on design-space exploration of tightly coupled multiprocessors.

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Joe Rodriguez, Product Marketing Manager, Rambus Inc.
Justin Endo, Sales and Marketing Manager, Mixel, Inc.

Sensors drive the algorithms that interpret the data enabling ADAS driving systems. High-bandwidth global shutter cameras, and low-latency, low-power radar, lidar and sonar sensors' streaming data leverage MIPI CSI-2® technologies to meet challenging design requirements.

Joe Rodriguez

This session discusses how highly configurable MIPI CSI-2 based PHY and Controller subsystem solutions can be tailored to address the needs of autonomous driving. Example customer use cases illustrate the implementation of these MIPI CSI-2 solutions.

Presenters:

Joe Rodriguez is a product marketing manager with the Rambus Controller Group. He is an expert in Memory and MIPI controller IP. Before joining Rambus, Joe held product, technical marketing management, and engineering positions at the Mentor Graphics Design Verification Division, Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys.

Justin Endo

Justin  Endo, Mixel's marketing manager, oversees marketing strategy and customer engagement from Mixel's headquarters in San Jose, Calif. In this role, he manages Mixel’s exhibition presence at industry events, the development of press releases and white papers, and the promotion of Mixel’s mixed-signal IP portfolio in various industry media. In addition, he serves as chair of the MIPI Alliance DevCon Steering Committee. He holds a bachelor’s degree with a double major in economics and French from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MBA from The University of Melbourne – Melbourne Business School.

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Philip Hawkes

Philip Hawkes & Rick Wietfeldt, Co-Chairs of the MIPI Security Working Group

The MIPI CSI-2® security framework for ADAS/ADS provides data protection of camera connectivity to ECUs, and includes component authentication, integrity, and optional confidentiality. Its key features are:

• CSI-2 protocol-based end-to-end data security with and without SerDes bridges
• Highly-granular security control of the CSI-2 video frame, known as Source-selective partial-integrity and encryption (SSPIE)
• Operation natively over MIPI A-PHY® and SerDes bridges that support CSI-2 via MIPI C-PHY℠/D-PHY℠ interface

Rick Wietfeldt

Presenters:

Philip Hawkes is a principal engineer, technology, at Qualcomm, and is the co-chair of the Security Working Group. Phil primarily works on security topics in standards organizations. His experience covers mobile networks, location technologies, IoT/M2M, WiFi and wired connectivity. Phil started his career as a symmetric cryptography expert involved in both design and analysis of algorithms. He received his bachelor of science and doctorate in mathematics from the University of Queensland and is based near Sydney, Australia.

Rick Wietfeldt is a senior director, technology, at Qualcomm Technologies Inc. in San Diego. He joined Qualcomm in 2007 and established the Advanced Connectivity Technology office responsible for the standards developments organizations (SDO) that drive mobile interface standards. He has authored numerous publications and been awarded numerous patents in mobile device architecture and operation. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Rick worked at Texas Instruments in Dallas from 2003-2007 as the OMAP CTO running the U.S. CTO office and helping position OMAP as the workhorse processor of the early smartphone era. Rick received his bachelor of science and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, and his doctorate from York University in Toronto.

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Kondalarao Polisetti, Staff Design Engineer, AMD, Inc./Xilinx Inc.
Wesley Skeffington, Principal Engineer, AMD, Inc./Xilinx Inc.

Kondalarao Polisetti

MIPI specifications are mature, relatively simple to use and well proven in the mobile segment, which makes MIPI CSI-2® image sensors a best bet in beyond-mobile segments like automotive, AI and vision applications.

This presentation details the concept of System on Module (SOM) with MIPI-based camera sensors. It begins with a few vision-based applications, including the implementation methods to ease the path from concept to production, and then covers the interop challenges while bringing up the camera sensor and the video pipe, and the debug techniques used. It concludes with a look at “Accelerated application” to differentiate designs at the software level and shorten the runway to volume development, and examines how the SOM hardware architecture and connector interface has been optimized for signal integrity and a maximum number of MIPI interfaces.

Wesley Skeffington

Presenters:

Kondalarao Polisetti is staff design engineer at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc./Xilinx Inc. with 15+ years of experience in IP solutions development for Xilinx FPGAs. His expertise includes developing IP solutions for embedded, automotive, medical and radar segments. Some of the protocols/IP include CAN, MOST NIC, AXI Generators, Checkers, Performance monitors & MIPI Subsystems. Xilinx has been active MIPI member since 2014.

Wesley Skeffington is a principal engineer for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc./Xilinx Inc., focused on systems engineering of heterogeneous platform architectures, mixed criticality and embedded design. He joined Xilinx in 2018 after 15+ years of product design leadership in hardware, FPGA and mixed software environments in embedded systems. His application focus has been real-time systems for healthcare equipment and industrial control systems. At Xilinx he has been leading technical definition and development of integrated hardware and software systems such as Kria SOM.

Justin Endo, Mixel, Inc., MIPI DevCon Steering Committee Chair

Justin Endo

Justin Endo, chair of the MIPI DevCon Steering Committee, welcomes attendees to day two of the virtual event and provides an overview of the agenda.

Presenter:

Justin  Endo, Mixel's marketing manager, oversees marketing strategy and customer engagement from Mixel's headquarters in San Jose, Calif. In this role, he manages Mixel’s exhibition presence at industry events, the development of press releases and white papers, and the promotion of Mixel’s mixed-signal IP portfolio in various industry media. In addition, he serves as chair of the MIPI Alliance DevCon Steering Committee. He holds a bachelor’s degree with a double major in economics and French from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MBA from The University of Melbourne – Melbourne Business School.

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Edo Cohen, Co-Chair of the MIPI A-PHY Working Group, Valens Semiconductor
Raj Kumar Nagpal, Chair, MIPI D-PHY Working Group, Synopsys, Inc.
George Wiley, Chair, MIPI C-PHY Working Group
Kirill Dimitrov, Chair, MIPI M-PHY Working Group, Western Digital Technologies Inc.

MIPI's family of physical interfaces – A-PHY®, C-PHY^SM, D-PHY^SM, and M-PHY® – serve as the backbone of MIPI's protocol solutions, particularly those for camera, display and flash storage applications in a wide array of platforms. In this session, working group chairs share what makes each PHY distinct, provide an overview of the latest features and enhancements, and offer a glimpse at what's on the roadmap for future versions.

Edo Cohen

Presenters:

Edo Cohen is the co-chair of the MIPI A-PHY Working Group and an active member of the MIPI Technical Steering Group. He has been a member of MIPI Alliance since 2009, contributing in multiple working groups and previously serving as the vice chair and chair for the Display Working Group.

Edo is Valens’ vice president ecosystem development, spearheading automotive standardization. He brings more than 20 years of experience as a senior system engineer, with extensive knowledge in system architecture, technical specifications, definition and execution. Prior to Valens, Edo was a senior system architect at Intel Corporation, heading activities in the wearables and IOT. Previously, he was a senior staff system engineer at Marvell Cellular Division, responsible for the company’s cellular processor environment and held engineering managerial positions at Floware, Alvarion and NAMS. Edo holds an MBA and a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Tel Aviv University.

Raj Kumar Nagpal

Raj Kumar Nagpal is senior manager at Synopsys and serves as co-chair of the MIPI A-PHY Working Group, chair of the PHY Steering Group, and chair of the D-PHY Working Group. He 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's 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.

George Wiley serves as chair of the MIPI C-PHY Working Group. He is senior director of technical standards at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. where he has responsibility for C-PHY system design and participates in the development of other multimedia interfaces.

George Wiley

George has been with Qualcomm for 25 years and has developed products related to digital communications over his 46 year career, including forward error correction equipment for satellite communications, data encryption equipment, wireless local loop terminals and various mobile phones, including one of the first smartphones.

Kirill Dimitrov is chair of the MIPI M-PHY Working Group and an active member of the MIPI Technical Steering Group. He is a technical IP manager and standardization expert at Western Digital Corporation, leading high speed interfaces standardization and high speed IP engagements. With more than 15 years of experience in high speed, signal integrity, power integrity and standardization, Kirill actively contributes to various standardization bodies such as PCI-SIG, SDA and JEDEC, and has been a member of MIPI Alliance since 2012, contributing in multiple working groups.

Kirill Dimitrov

Kirill has held various R&D engineering positions within Western Digital (previously SanDisk) in high-speed IPs validation and assessment and signal/power integrity. Prior to Western Digital, Kirill worked for CSR corporation (formerly Zoran incorporated) as a post silicon validation engineer, and in 3D vision and image processing algorithms research. Kirill has a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Ben-Gurion University.

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Licinio Sousa, Senior Product Manager, Synopsys, Inc.

Have you ever wondered how MIPI interfaces are used in SoCs for IoT, mobile and image/display systems? This presentation covers two case studies, describing how Inuitive and Novatek leverage MIPI interface IP from Synopsys into their SoCs. You’ll learn how Inuitive uses MIPI interfaces to enable its vision processor for AR/VR, drones, robots and other applications, as well as how Novatek utilizes MIPI DSI® and MIPI C-PHY℠/D-PHY℠ to drive its immersive viewing display SoC with advanced functionalities and low-power features critical in today’s systems.

Licinio Sousa

Presenter:

Licinio Sousa joined Synopsys in 2009 and is currently a senior staff product marketing manager responsible for its DesignWare MIPI and mobile storage IP solutions. Licinio brings more than 16 years of experience in semiconductor, IP and EDA companies focusing on software and hardware design. He has also held various R&D, field applications engineering and marketing positions at Synopsys. Licinio holds a bachelor's of science degree from the University of Porto in electrical and computer engineering and a master's degree from the Porto Business School.

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Yundong Cui

Yundong Cui, Technical Support Director, Hercules Microelectronics (HME)
Mahmoud Banna, General Manager, Mixel Egypt

This presentation looks at how MIPI D-PHY℠, MIPI CSI-2® and MIPI DSI-2℠ specifications were implemented on an FPGA IC supporting a wide range of applications for smart phones, tablets, wearables, VR headsets and other devices. It also covers a real-life use case in a highly configurable FPGA solution from Hercules Microsystems.

Presenters:

Mahmoud Banna

Yundong Cui is technical support director of Hercules Microelectronics (HME). Before HME, he worked for Cloudchip and Capital Microelectronics. He has over 12 years' experience in FPGA architecture and application design. Yundong earned his bachelor of science in Information engineering and master’s in FPGA-based image processing from Beihang University.

Mahmoud Banna heads Mixel’s team in Egypt and has been with Mixel for the last 11 years. Prior to that position, he led a team working on serial link products such as USB and PCI Express. Mahmoud has 15 years of ASIC design and management experience. He holds a BSEE from Ain Shams University and MBA from the American University in Cairo.

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Saminah Chaudhry

Saminah Chaudhry & Ashara, Systems Engineers, Texas Instruments

This session focuses on different end-equipment applications highlighting the use of key MIPI I3C® features in a broader set of use cases and industries such as automotive, memory management, server control and communications equipment. The presentation dives deeper into system-level applications that use MIPI I3C for higher bandwidth at very low power levels, allowing for simpler, more flexible design implementation with target resets, In-band Interrupts, dynamic addressing and hot-join capabilities.

Presenters:

Amit Ashara

Saminah Chaudhry is a systems engineer at Texas Instruments in the interface business. She is responsible for product definition, product roadmap and strategy for I2C/I3C portfolio in the transceiver interface product line.

Amit Ashara is a systems engineer at Texas Instruments in the sensing group and leads product definition of temperature sensors including analog, digital, temperature sensors and thermistors.

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Florinel Balteanu, Technical Director, Skyworks Solutions

Florinel Balteanu

Mobile cellular subscribers reached more than 6 billion in 2021, and 5G LTE brings high data capacity as low latency using sub-6GHz and mm-Wave spectrum. There is a partitioning for which RF blocks are placed into CMOS advanced nodes and which blocks are left in the RF front end module (RFFEMs). RF front end modules are controlled by MIPI RFFE℠, and this presentation will cover the challenges for this control with exemplifications.

Presenter:

Florinel Balteanu is a technical director with Skyworks Solutions Inc. in Irvine, Calif. He has presented short courses and tutorials as an Invited Speaker at IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) International Microwave Symposium (IMS) and Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC). He holds 77 U.S. patents, with several more pending. He is author of the chapter “Envelope Tracking Techniques” in the IET book “Radio Frequency and Microwave Power Amplifiers, Vol. 2: Efficiency and Linearity."