Q1 2020 Edition
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IEEE Industry Standards Technology Organization (ISTO)
IEEE ISTO Marks 20 Years of Helping Small Groups Quickly Develop Technical Specs
The technologies include blockchain, Internet of Things, and smart cities
For the past 20 years, the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization has taken on the administrative tasks involved with setting up not-for-profit industry trade groups—the sort that consortia, industry alliances, and startups need in order to develop technical standards.
ISTO sets up a legal infrastructure within which each group operates. It takes care of the financial, legal, and tax documents that are required, as well as setting up websites, holding meetings, organizing events, and other duties. It also assists with developing specifications, promoting the technologies, and gaining market acceptance. Read the complete article.
Alliance Program Highlights
DiiA debuts DALI-2 certification of tunable white LED drivers
DALI-2 brings standardization to tunable white LED drivers, enabling human-centric lighting control that can mimic changes in natural light during the day.
The Digital Illumination Interface Alliance (DiiA), the global industry organization for DALI lighting control, has expanded the scope of the DALI-2 certification program to include tunable white colour control. DiiA has added the colour temperature Tc method of colour control as a feature for DALI-2 control gear such as LED drivers. Commonly referred to as "tunable white", Tc allows control of the correlated colour temperature (CCT) along the black-body line, from warm white to cool white. Read on.
OpenCAPI Consortium Releases New Specifications Additional Ecosystem
Additional Ecosystem Growth Beyond New SpecificationsThe OpenCAPI Consortium announced the release of four new specifications including: 1) OpenCAPI 3.0 Transaction Layer Architecture for accelerator end point device development, 2) OpenCAPI 3.1 Transaction Layer Architecture for memory buffer device development built around the Open Memory Interface (OMI) to enable evolving memory technologies and standards, 3) OpenCAPI Ready for those companies that wish to perform limited self-certification to have their devices designated as being OpenCAPI ReadyTM, and 4) OpenCAPI 25 Gbps PHY Signaling Specification for users to certify their OpenCAPI 25 Gbps electrical interface.
SEVENTEEN PRODUCTS OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED AS TALQ-COMPLIANT
The Smart City Protocol Continues to Spread in Many Countries
The TALQ Consortium is continuing to certify further products as TALQ-compliant and, by doing so, will guarantee interoperability among systems from different vendors. Read on.
CITY OF STOCKHOLM JOINS TALQ CONSORTIUM
The TALQ Partner Programme fosters interoperability of smart city applications
The TALQ Consortium is seeing an increasing interest in its Partner Programme currently. Various cities worldwide have not only included TALQ-Compliance as a requirement in their public tenders, but are also demanding closer collaboration in order to be able to better understand and influence the TALQ Specification in line with their individual requirements. Read on.
MIPI I3C v1.1 Delivers Greater Speed, New Features
MIPI Alliance recently released the first update to its innovative interface that eliminates the historical pain points of I2C development. MIPI I3C v1.1, available to MIPI members, is a scalable, medium-speed, utility and control bus that connects peripherals to an application processor, streamlining integration and improving cost efficiencies. Relying on a lower number of pins and the smallest amount of PCB real estate compared with other bus solutions, MIPI I3C integrates mechanical, motion, biometric, environmental and any other type of sensor. The latest version builds on those capabilities with new features for peripheral command, control and communication to a host processor over a short distance.
MIPI Releases Camera Command Set v1.1, Related CTSs
The latest version of MIPI CCS, v1.1, has been released to members and nonmembers, along with conformance test suites (CTSs) for both v1.1 and v1.0 to foster product interoperability. Designed for use with MIPI CSI-2 v3.0 but backward compatible with previous versions, CCS v1.1 includes support for CCS Static Data to standardize capability and configuration files and faster PHY support. In addition to image sensors supporting I2C/I3C-based CCI, the new version can also be used with Unified Serial Link (USL) image sensors.
MIPI Expands Webinar Archive Library
MIPI Alliance recently delivered three webinars focused on new versions of its CSI-2, I3C and A-PHY specifications. Access the presentations in MIPI's Knowledge Library:
· "The New Frontier of MIPI CSI-2 Camera and Imaging Applications: Leveraging the Power of Machine Vision for Mobile, IoT, Client Devices, Automotive and Beyond," presented by Haran Thanigasalam (Intel)
· I3C Working Group Chair Ken Foust (Intel), presented "Beyond Sensors: What's New in MIPI I3C v1.1,"
· "Advancing In Vehicle Connectivity" presented by Matt Ronning (Sony)and Raj Kumar Nagpal (Synopsys)
SAMPLING OF ISTO PROGRAMS
Recent News
Digital Illumination Interface Alliance
- 3 March 2020: Vossloh-Schwabe becomes a Regular Member of DiiA
MIPI Alliance
- 15 January 2020: MIPI I3C v1.1 Utility and Control Bus Strengthens Upgrade Path for I2C Implementers
OpenCAPI
- 5 March 2020: OpenCAPI ConsortiumTM Releases New Specifications Additional Ecosystem
- 24 February 2020: 2019 OpenCAPI Contest Finalists Announced
Printer Working Group
- 17 February 2020: PWG February 2020 Virtual Face-to-Face Meeting - Summary
- 18 December 2020: PWG Approved: IPP System Service v1.0 (SYSTEM)
TALQ
- 2 March 2020: City of Stockholm Joins TALQ Consortium
- 6 February 2020: Seventeen products officially certified as TALQ-compliant
WPC
Zhaga Consortium
- 11 March 2020: New visual identity of Zhaga - The Transition
Upcoming Events
BiTA Standards Council
- 4 May 2020: BiTA Symposium Atlanta
Digital Illumination Interface Alliance
- 14 May 2020: Lighting Design Awards 2020
MIPI Alliance
- 13-16 May 2020: IoT Innovation North America (a sponsored event)
- 8-12 June 2020: MIPI Member Meeting Europe #54
- 19 October 2020: MIPI MemberMeeting Asia #55
Wireless Power Consortium
About ISTO
ISTO is the premier trusted partner of the global technology community for the development, adoption, and certification of industry standards and emerging technologies. Its mission is to facilitate the life cycle of industry standards development through a dedicated staff committed to neutrality, quality support and member satisfaction.
Fostering the market acceptance, adoption and implementation of standardized technologies, programs of ISTO Federation span the spectrum of today’s information and communications technologies. ISTO is the recipient of the 2010 Tenzing Norgay Interoperability Achievement Award, which recognizes success in driving market acceptance, adoption and implementation of standardized technologies. For more information, visit the ISTO website.
