MIPI M-PHY takes center stage
The curtain is up and the M-PHY specification is taking center stage, positioned to handle the many different roles required for a faster, more reliable, physical interface layer (PHY Layer) on mobile devices.
Vendor:
Mixel, Inc.
Category:
MIPI PHY
MIPI D-PHY RX+ (Receiver) IP
The MIPI® D-PHY RX+ is a proprietary implementation of the MIPI Camera Serial Interface 2 (CSI-2) and Display Serial Interface (D…
Overview
The MIPI® D-PHY RX+ is a proprietary implementation of the MIPI Camera Serial Interface 2 (CSI-2) and Display Serial Interface (DSI) D-PHY Receiver. It is optimized to achieve full-speed production testing, in-system testing, and higher performance compared to traditional configurations, while reducing area and standby power.
As MIPI adoption continues to expand beyond its traditional mobile platform use-cases into safety sensitive applications such as automotive and medical, full-speed, in-system testability and diagnostics have become of paramount importance. The RX+ configuration was created to address those safety and reliability sensitive applications.
Full-speed production testing using traditional D-PHY requires the use of Universal configuration, which includes multiple high-speed and low-power transmitters not required for functional operation. The RX+ configuration uses a reduced number of simplified transmitters to test multiple data lanes, resulting in a substantial reduction of 35% in area and 50% reduction in standby power.
This patented implementation also enables higher data rate performance by minimizing the capacitive load at the high-speed serial interface pins and isolating the loop back test from any loading on the serial interface pins. All this while achieving 100% test coverage of the complete IP.
The MIPI D-PHY Receiver provides the testability and diagnostics of the D-PHY Universal configuration with the smaller footprint and improved performance of D-PHY RX. The D-PHY RX+ is truly the best of both.
Key features
- Silicon proven in multiple foundries and process nodes
- Tier-1 customers are going into production with a differentiated solution
- Supports CSI-2, DSI and DSI-2 applications
- Issued U.S. Patent 10,289,511 for implementation
- Area and power reduction compared with Universal
- Area reduction: ~35 %
- Leakage Power reduction: ~50 %
- Improved testability compared with RX configuration
- Full-speed production test
- In-system testability and diagnostics
Block Diagram
MXL-DPHY-CSI2-RX+ block diagram
Specifications
Identity
Part Number
MXL-DPHY-CSI2-RX+
Vendor
Mixel, Inc.
Type
Silicon IP
Standards & Interfaces
MIPI PHY
MIPI D-PHY
Files
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Provider
HQ:
USA
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Frequently asked questions about MIPI PHY IP
What is MIPI D-PHY RX+ (Receiver) IP?
MIPI D-PHY RX+ (Receiver) IP is a MIPI PHY IP core from Mixel, Inc. listed on Semi IP Hub.
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