On Feb. 27, at 10am, Silvaco will be host a free webinar on “What’s in the New MIPI Alliance I3C V1.1 Standard?”  The presenter is Paul Kimelman, Platform Architect for Automotive Microcontrollers and Processors at NXP Semiconductors.

Mobile devices today contain a rich assortment of sensors that need to communicate their information as quickly as possible at the lowest possible power. To achieve this the MIPI Alliance has gathered industry leaders to create a new interface standard for connecting peripherals and sensors.

I3C has the advantages in reducing pin count, increasing performance, and decreasing power while achieving some level of backwards compatibility with the long-established I2C interface. The new I3C V1.1, announced in January 2020, enables faster interface speeds up to 100 Mhz and has many other new features that will aid the transition from I2C to I3C in applications.

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What attendees will learn:

• Background on the development of I3C
• Basic MIPI I3C signaling and protocol
• Comparison of I2C vs I3C
• Key features of I3C
  • Lower power
  • Hot pluggable
  • High Data Rate (HDR) modes
  • Dynamic Addressing
  • In-band Interrupts
  • Common Command Codes (CCCs)
• I3C roadmap features
• Integrating I3C cores

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The MIPI Alliance (MIPI) develops interface specifications for mobile and mobile-influenced industries.

There is at least one MIPI specification in every smartphone manufactured today. On January 15, MIPI announced an update to the I3C peripheral connection standard to version 1.1 with many new features. It will streamline integration and lower cost in the development of smartphones, IoT devices, server management, automotive applications, and more. MIPI I3C v1.1 is a scalable, medium-speed utility and control bus that connects peripherals to an application processor, and it is now available to MIPI Alliance members like Silvaco.

In their press release, Joel Huloux, chairman of MIPI Alliance, said “Delivering a dramatic speed increase and a host of new features to enhance reliability, MIPI I3C v1.1 significantly strengthens the upgrade path for I2C applications and enables many different use cases across mobile and multiple other markets including automotive, PC clients, data centers, drones, industrial and the Internet of Things (IoT). The specification is ideal for system-level implementers seeking a low-cost, off-the-shelf standardized utility bus solution with a small printed circuit board (PCB) footprint and a well-defined and readily available ecosystem of peripherals, sensors and applications.” (more…)