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News Release from: ARM
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 August 2003
Alliance to promote mobile processor
standards
The Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Alliance is a new industry initiative that will define and promote open standards for interfaces to mobile application processors.
The Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Alliance is a new industry initiative that will define and promote open standards for interfaces to mobile application processors The founding members are ARM, Nokia, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The MIPI Alliance is a response to the broad interest in the OMAPI standard launched by ST and TI in December 2002.
OMAPI was formed by TI and ST to standardise interfaces for mobile application processors.
The response to this initiative was very strong and indicated the need for a more representative formal industry organisation.
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As a result, the new MIPI Alliance has been established as an incorporated not-for-profit entity that will include a wide range of member companies with the common goal of defining and promoting open, standard specifications for application processor interfaces.
By establishing consistency in application processor interfaces, the alliance expects to ease implementation and design of hardware and software, promoting reuse and compatibility in mobile devices to accelerate time-to-market.
"Mobile device users and wireless carriers are demanding a rapidly changing set of features and functions", said Allen Leibovitch, IDC's Wireless Semiconductor Research Manager.
"Standards like the MIPI Alliance can allow mobile device manufacturers and their semiconductor and software providers to more easily combine their best components and features and bring compelling products to market in a shorter time".
The MIPI Alliance is intended to complement existing standards bodies such as the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and 3GPP.
While these organisations focus on services and air interfaces, respectively, the MIPI Alliance is focused on microprocessors, peripherals and software interfaces.
The MIPI Alliance is actively recruiting member companies such as handset manufacturers, semiconductor companies, hardware peripheral manufacturers, operating system vendors, middleware vendors and software application developers to help define and promote the adoption of the new standard.
As part of the MIPI Alliance, 10 working groups will be established to develop specifications in key areas such as camera and display interface, software abstraction, communications interface and system control.
The MIPI Alliance is structured to provide multiple levels of membership, in which benefits are proportional to contributions.
Basic levels of membership enable use of specifications, while other levels of membership enable participation in working groups to define specifications.
The MIPI Alliance expects to announce new members in the third quarter of 2003.
More information, including membership details can be found at www.mipi.org.
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