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MIPI Interoperability and Conformance: Interview with David Woolf (Part 1)
I constantly receive questions about MIPI plug-fest and other certification programs through my business engagements as well as other general MIPI questions. For this reason I wanted to interview...
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MIPI DigRF Integration Tutorial in IP Summit
Integrating new interfaces is complex. M-PHY based-protocols are new and require a lot of effort to get the IP right on the IC and then make sure it can connect to the other side. IP vendors are...
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MIPI Interoperability and Conformance: Interview with David Woolf (Part 2)
We are back with part#2 of the interview with Mr. David Woolf, Senior Engineer at UNH-IOL, which actively engages in interoperability and conformance tests for various MIPI protocols. If you missed...
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MIPI Interoperability and Conformance: Interview with David Woolf (Part 3)
We are back with part#3 and FINAL of the interview with Mr. David Woolf, Senior Engineer at UNH-IOL, which actively engages in interoperability and conformance tests for various MIPI protocols. If...
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Mobile solutions at Work
We typically refer to mobile solutions in the context of consumers as these mobile devices are used in our daily life for fun, accessing information, watching movies and similar tasks. We also use...
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Demo at Mobile Expo – Shanghai
I’m receiving a lot of questions recently on CSI-2 and DSI usage in the system and continue to see these as the de-facto standards for cameras and displays in mobile electronics and beyond....
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Making the case for LLI
I wanted to make a few points about why you should think of implementing LLI (and M-PHY) in your next design. But first, I want to invite you to a live webinar conducted by Synopsys and Arteris that...
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CSI-2 and DSI Hardware demo at Mobile Expo 2012
We participated at Mobile Expo as part of the MIPI alliance booth and had hardware demonstration showing our complete and interoperable CSI-2 and DSI host interfaces. Here’s a block diagram of the...
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The Need for Speed – D-PHY
I cover topics about low power and mobile applications in the past years but there is something that is often neglected. It comes at the expense of lowering the power and it is performance. We can...
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Office gone Mobile
The world continues to change in front of our eyes. The things that were considered essential a decade ago are now obsolete. Latest research from Virgin Media Business suggests that Landline phones in...
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UFS, UniPro and You
UFS JEDEC UFS (Universal Flash Storage) v1.1 is a standard promoted by JEDEC JC64.1 aiming to replace eMMC for scalable and high performance non-volatile memory interface in mobile and consumer...
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Use of UFS Host and UniPro in a typical system
I was approached by many readers asking for more information about integration of UFS in their SoC platform. As the information provided on the Synopsys MIPI web site gives you a good overview of the...
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TTS: Time-To-Standard
It takes time to bring a standard solution. Starting from a problem, idea, collaboration and specification to a standard use in the market. It takes a very long time to build an eco-system around a...
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DigRFv4 System Demo
Mobile devices that use baseband processors and RFIC’s require a lot of effort to integrate these componenets together in a very challenging environment: small and slim board, tight casing, lots of RF...
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First JEDEC UFS v1.1 Host and Device Interoperability
I want to share a video showing the work we are doing at Synopsys to help semiconductor vendors adopt the JEDEC UFS v1.1 standard needed for high performance storage applications. Thr video shows the...
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JEDEC UFS v1.1 in Silicon
Toshiba’s launch of the Industry’s First Embedded NAND Flash memory module compliant with JEDEC UFS v1.1 marks an impressive milestone for the mobile storage market space. This memory is capable of...
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Design for Phablets
I spent last week at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, where Synopsys also demonstrated our D-PHY, CSI-2 and DSI protocols running in hardware and connecting to Agilent test equipment and UNH...
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Shifting to High Speed Gear 3
The MIPI alliance announced the release of M-PHY v3.0 in Barcelona which solidifies the Gear3 and other specs enhancements. From the press release I can quote this: M-PHY® v3.0 delivers a low-power,...
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Meeting power, performance and reusability requirements for mobile systems
Discussing and sharing opinions is what drives our industry forward; however sharing ideas becomes more challenging in our time where competition is intense. This is true for any industry but even...
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Demonstating M-PHY v3.0 Silicon
MIPI M-PHY is a promising technology, intesnded to be used across multiple applications and utilized by standard organizations such as JEDEC for UFS, USB for SSIC, and PCI-SIG for Mobile PCIe. We have...
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