Q3 2019 Edition
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Alliance Building for Open Source Solutions
By Michelle Hunt, Director, Alliance Management Operations, IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (ISTO)
While there is a notable increase in the development of Open Source (OS) technical solutions, there sometimes can also be misunderstanding and/or confusion relating to what OS is and how and why today’s technical consortia and collectives are implementing OS development models. Read more
Alliance Program Highlights
CONSUMERS EXCITED TO CHARGE ON THE GO, NEW SURVEY SAYS
Wireless charging has been on the rise for the last several years, with the number of products in our Product Database growing constantly. According to our third annual consumer survey from the WPC, consumers are increasingly interested in wireless charging while “on the go.” They want to see wireless chargers available at hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, sports and concert stadiums, and many other places beyond the home or office.
OpenCAPI Consortium held its first SNAP Hands-On Workshop
SNAP is the acronym for Storage, Network, Analytics and Programming and was designed for both software and hardware engineers alike to take a function and accelerate it on an FPGA platform. The workshop was an end-to-end educational session where the basic OpenCAPI technology and SNAP demo was provided.
The OpenCAPI SNAP workshop was co-located at SC19.
MIPI Alliance Releases Automotive White Paper
MIPI Alliance recently published a new white paper, “MIPI Alliance: Driving the Wires of Automotive,” highlighting current MIPI specifications being leveraged in automotive applications, along with enhancements and new specifications under development.
The paper includes an in-depth look at the forthcoming MIPI A-PHY℠ specification and its key technical advantages. Version 1.0 of the specification will provide the automotive industry with a unified in-vehicle connectivity standard that meets the industry’s need for high speed, low latency, functional safety, lightweight wiring, low power consumption and the desired economies of scale.
New Specifications, Conformance Test Suites from MIPI Alliance
MIPI Alliance recently released three new specifications: CSI-2 v3.0, C-PHY v2.0 and D-PHY v2.5. CSI-2 v3.0, an update to the popular camera interface, delivers several enhancements designed to enable greater capabilities for machine awareness across multiple application spaces, such as mobile, client, automotive, industrial IoT and medical. These new features include RAW-24, Smart Region of Interest and Unified Serial Link. The new C-PHY v2.0 specification adds support for symbol rates up to 6 Gsps over the standard channel and up to 8 Gsps over the short channel, support for an RX equalization, support for a fast BTA, an in-band control signaling option, along with support for medium channel lengths to suit IoT applications. New to D-PHY v2.5 is a fast BTA as well as an Alternate Low Power (ALP) feature, which enables a link operation using only D-PHY’s high-speed signaling levels. These features enable applications of not only mobile devices, but also IoT devices operating over several meters at high-speed. Both new PHY versions are targeted for use with CSI-2 v3.0.
In other CSI-2 news, the Camera Working Group recently published conformance test suites (CTSs) for the four most recent versions of the specification: v3.0, v2.1, v2.0 and v1.3.
SAMPLING OF ISTO PROGRAMS
Upcoming MIPI CSI-2 Webinar
Wednesday, 8 January 2020 8am PST
Presenter: Haran Thanigasalam, Senior Architect & Independent Contributor, Intel Corporation | MIPI Camera Working Group Chair
MIPI Alliance is continuing to advance comprehensive imaging conduit solutions for human consumption and machine vision applications mapped to a broad range of product platforms including mobile, client devices, IoT, drones and automotive. This webinar will provide an overview of the evolution of the MIPI CSI-2 imaging conduit, and then take a detailed look at the features and capabilities now enabled by the recently released CSI-2 v3.0 specification.
Recent News
Digital Illumination Interface Alliance
- 22 November 2019: DiiA starts D4i certification of LED drivers
MIPI Alliance
- 26 September 2019: New Version of Most Widely Used Camera and Imaging Interface—MIPI CSI-2—Designed to Build Capabilities for Greater Machine Awareness
- 8 October 2019: MIPI Alliance Advances Activities for ADAS, ADS and Other Automotive Applications
OpenCAPI
Printer Working Group
- 23 September 2019: PWG August 2019 Face-to-Face Meeting - Summary
- 9 October 2019: PWG Press Release: Printer Working Group (PWG) Adds Features to IPP (Internet Printing Protocol)
- 24 October 2019: PWG Formal Vote: IPP System Service v1.0 (SYSTEM) (concluded)
- 6 December 2019: PWG November 2019 Face-to-Face Meeting - Summary
TALQ
- 30 October 2019: TALQ-Certified logo released
WPC
Zhaga Consortium
- 25 September 2019: Zhaga-D4i interoperability showcased at LpS
Upcoming Events
BiTA Standards Council
- 4 May 2020: BiTA Symposium Atlanta
Digital Illumination Interface Alliance
- 30 January 2020: LIA Technical Forum
- 11-13 February 2010: Strategies in Light
- 8-11 March 2020: Light+Building
- 17-18 March 2020: LEDucation
MIPI Alliance
- 8 January 2020: 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
- 16-20 March 2020: MIPI Member Meeting North America #53
- 13-16 May 2020: IoT Innovation North America (a sponsored event)
Wireless Power Consortium
- 6-9 January 2020: CES
- 17-20 February 2020: WPC 2001
- 23-26 February 2020: Mobile World Congress
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.
