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Celebrating 15 Years of Liberty: Empowering Interoperability in the Semiconductor Industry
As Liberty reaches its 15-year milestone, it is time to celebrate the contributions made by this consortium. Supported by IEEE-ISTO, Liberty has revolutionized the semiconductor industry by fostering interoperability and empowering collaboration among industry leaders. In this article, we review Liberty’s journey and highlight its transformative impact on the field. Read more.
IMPALA Consortium Welcome New Members
In the first few months since its launch, the Inter coMPany quALity Analytics (IMPALA) Consortium welcomes its newest BioPharma members: Amgen, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly and Company, GSK, Galapagos, and Sanofi. IMPALA officially launched in October 2022 as a member program of IEEE-ISTO with a mission to transform the Biopharmaceutical Clinical Quality Assurance (QA) process in the Good Clinical Practice and Good Pharmacovigilance Practice areas,...Read More
Alliance Program Highlights
IEC publishes further standards based on DiiA Specifications
Four more DiiA Specifications have been successfully transferred to the IEC and published as new Parts of the IEC 62386 family of international standards and are available for purchase.
The DALI Alliance has created a number of DiiA Specifications that add further standardized features to the DALI lighting-control protocol. These specifications will be transferred to IEC to expand the multi-Part IEC 62386 standard.
The DALI Alliance develops and maintains various certification programs (DALI-2, D4i and the forthcoming DALI+ certification) that are built on the requirements of IEC 62386 and the relevant DiiA Specifications.
DIFI Consortium Elects Leaders of Working Groups to Drive Evolution of its Digital Interoperability Specification and Certification
PISCATAWAY, NJ: May 1, 2023: The Digital Intermediate Frequency Interoperability (DIFI) Consortium announced today the result of leadership elections for working groups that are driving the evolution of its digital Intermediate Frequency (IF)/Radio Frequency (RF) interoperability specification and certification. Their work will accelerate the digital transformation of satellite communications, making it more flexible, responsive and capable of end-to-end automation.
MIPI Releases 13 Specifications
Thus far in 2023, the MIPI Board of Directors has approved the adoption of 13 specifications, with various updates, including new key features, support for related specifications, editorial and technical clarifications, and the replacement of deprecated technical terms with more inclusive terminology.
1. MIPI A-PHY® 1.1.1
2. MIPI Camera Command Set (CCS℠) v1.1.1
3. MIPI D-PHY℠ v3.5
4. MIPI Discovery & Configuration (DisCo℠) for I3C® v1.1
5. MIPI DisCo℠ for NIDnT℠ v1.1
6. MIPI DisCo℠ for SoundWire® v2.0
7. MIPI Display Command Set (DCS℠) v2.0
8. MIPI Display Serial Interface 2 (DSI-2℠) v2.1
9. MIPI I3C Host Controller Interface (I3C HCI℠) v1.2
10. MIPI A-PHY Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) for I2C v1.0.1
11. MIPI PAL℠/SPI v1.0
12. MIPI RF Front-End Control Interface (RFFE℠) v3.1
13. MIPI Sneak Peek Protocol (SPP℠) v2.1
MIPI Alliance members have access to all specifications, and nonmember developers and implementers can download public editions of MIPI CCS and the MIPI debug and software specifications. MIPI A-PHY v1.0 was adopted by IEEE-SA and is also available as IEEE 2977-2021.
MIPI To Meet in San Jose for Working Group Sessions, Plugfest
MIPI Alliance Member Meeting North America #63 will be held on 26-30 June in San Jose, offering Board and Contributor-level members the opportunity to connect with colleagues and advance MIPI specifications. In conjunction with the meeting, the I3C and Debug working groups will host a joint plugfest to offer implementers of MIPI I3C®/I3C Basic℠ and MIPI Debug for I3C℠ the opportunity for confidential interoperability testing. The plugfest fee is $100 USD for MIPI members, $500 USD for nonmembers.
New MIPI A-PHY and Camera Resources Available
The MIPI A-PHY and Camera working groups have published new technical resources to aid implementation of their respective specifications:
• App Note for MIPI A-PHY® v1.0 and v1.1: Power Over A-PHY
• App Note for MIPI A-PHY: Profile 2 Re-Training and Re-Transmission.
• CTS for MIPI CSI-2® v4.0.1, which includes a Transmitter CTS and Receiver CTS
• CTS for MIPI Camera Command Set (CCS℠) v1.1.1 (public edition available)
The first quarter of 2023 brought new additions throughout the MIPI Alliance membership. Google LLC became the Alliance’s newest Promoter member, while 14 Adopter members and four new Contributors were added to the membership roster from 1 January to 31 March. Read More.
Zhaga Announces Winners of Inaugural Smart City Sensor Awards
Piscataway, NJ, USA (18 April 2023) – Zhaga, the global lighting industry consortium with the mission of standardizing the interfaces of components of LED luminaires, announced the winners of its inaugural Smart City Sensor Awards on 13 April. Launched in September 2022, the awards aim to encourage and recognize excellence in smart city sensors. The global contest was open to any smart city sensors that can be installed on streetlights using the Zhaga Book 18 standard and that are suitable for ZhagaD4i certification. Read more.
PROGRAM NEWS
Digital Illumination Interface Alliance (DiiA)
• 19 April 2023 - IEC publishes further standards based on DiiA Specifications
• 21 April 2023 - DALI Alliance and Zhaga to host Zhongshan seminar
• 27 April 2023 - DALI Alliance to showcase state-of-the-art lighting control at LightFair 2023
Inter Company Quality Analytics (IMPALA) Consortium
• IMPALA welcomes new members in an article written by ISTO.
• RQA features a session from IMPALA Consortium titled “Overview of IMPALA
Industry Group and its impact on modernizing GCP/PV Quality.” The session features
IMPALA Board members Timothe Menard (Roche), Maria Brynildsen (Sanofi), and
Michael Pelosi (Astellas).
MIPI® Alliance
• MIPI CSI-2, A-PHY, MASS and Security Gain Media Attention
• Updates Released for Three Software Specifications: I3C HCI, DisCo for I3C and DisCo for NIDnT
• MIPI DisCo for Imaging Specification Expands Suite of Tools for CSI-2 Implementation
Wireless Power Consortium (WPC)
• New Qi2 Standard for Wireless Devices Ensures Enhanced Consumer Convenience and Efficiency
Zhaga Consortium
• Zhaga Announces Winners of Inaugural Smart City Sensor Awards
PROGRAM EVENTS
Clinical Research Data Sharing Alliance (CRDSA)
• 20 April – CRDSA Webinar on “Secondary Use Data Sharing”
• 16-18 May – CRDSA CEO Aaron Mann and Board Member Peter Mesenbrink join a
plenary keynote panel, followed by a conference track presentation on "Evaluating
Technology Approaches Using a Stakeholder-Centric Assessment Framework." at
Bio-IT World
Digital Illumination Interface Alliance (DiiA)
• 23-25 May 2023 – Lightfair 2023, New York, USA.
• 9-12 June 2023 – Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition (GILE), Guangzhou,
China.
• 29-31 August 2023 – Shanghai Intelligent Building Technology (SIBT), Shanghai,
China.
• 18-19 October 2023 – Smart Buildings, Show, London, UK.
• 29-October 2023 – IES Street and Area Lighting Conference (SALC), Indianapolis,
IN, USA.
Inter Company Quality Analytics (IMPALA) Consortium
• 25-29 June – IMPALA Consortium will lead three sessions at DIA 2023.
Interconnect Modeling Technical Advisory Board (IMTAB)
• 25 August 2023 – Synopsys in Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
Laser Scanning for Augmented Reality (LaSAR)
• 31 May 31 – 2 June 2023 – Augmented World Expo (AWE) EU 2022, California,
USA.
Liberty Technical Advisory Board (LTAB)
• 14 July 2023 – Synopsys in Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
MIPI® Alliance
• 26-30 June 2023 – MIPI Member Meeting North America #63 – DoubleTree by Hilton
San Jose, CA, USA.
• 16-20 October 2023 – MIPI Member Meeting Asia #64 – Swissotel Nankai Osaka,
Osaka, Japan.
TALQ Consortium (TALQ)
• 10-12 May 2023 – Future Urbanism, Dubai.
• 23-25 May 2023 – Lightfair, New York, NY.
• 19-20 September 2023 – Innopolis, Paris, France.
• 29 Oct – 1 November 2023 – SALC IES, Indianapolis, USA.
• 7-9 November 2023 – Smart City Expo, Barcelona, Spain.
Wireless Power Consortium (WPC)
• 18-20 April 2023 – World IT Show in Seoul, Korea.
• 26-29 April 2023 – Appliance and Electronics World Expo in Shanghai, China.
• 22-26 May 2023 – WPC2302 Member Meeting – Sweden.
• 31 August – 4 September 2023 – IFA Berlin in Berlin, Germany.
• 11-15 September 2023 – WPC2303 Member Meeting – Location Asia TBD.
• 4-8 December 2023 – WPC2304 Member Meeting – Location USA TBD.
Zhaga Consortium
• 16-18 May 2023 – CLITI in Shenzhen, China.
• 21-25 May 2023 – Lightfair Trade Event in New York, USA.
• 4-6 July – Zhaga General Assembly Meeting – Virtual.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Ethernet Through the Years: Celebrating the Technology’s 50th Year of Innovation
Every year provides noteworthy technological innovations, but 1973 was one that stands out. The first personal computer, the Alto by Xerox, was developed and introduced the Graphical User Interface (GUI) and included a mouse. The first handheld cellular phone call, on a unit weighing about 1.134kg (2.5lbs), was made by Motorola’s Martin Cooper to Joel Engel of Bell Labs. Two scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) created the next generation Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), the standard protocol used on the Internet today. Read more.
WEBINARS ON HOT TOPICS
CRDSA Secondary Use Standards Webinar April 20 2023
RQA Quality Conversation - May 2023: IMPALA
Are We Ready for Mixed Traffic of Autonomous and Human-Driven Vehicles?
Behind the Wheel: Who is Driving the Carless Car?
Risk-Based Methodology for Deriving Scenarios for Artificial Intelligence
Serious Open Source Webinar Series: Open Source for Health and Wellness
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