MIPI UniPro: Major Differentiating Features, Benefits and Verification Challenges

By Synopsys, Inc.

October 14, 2015

MIPI UniPro is a recent addition to mobile chip-to-chip interconnect technology. It’s got many useful features to meet the requirements of mobile applications. That’s perhaps why Google’s Project Ara has selected MIPI UniPro and MIPI M-PHY as its backbone interconnects.

In this blog post, we describe three differentiating features, benefits and their verification challenges. All the discussion is referenced to MIPI UniPro 1.6.

1. Achieving Low power consumption through Power mode changes and hibernation
2. Flexibility in chip-to-chip lane routing through Physical Lane mapping
3. Enhanced QoS through CPort arbitration & Data link layer pre-emption

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