In connected care news are MIPI Alliance, Hyundai Mobis, Volvo Cars, Hyundai Motor America, AISIN, Green Hills, DP Patterning, Elektrobit, ETAS, LG Electronics, Google, GigaDevice, Tury, Motive, Polar Semiconductor, Nexperia, Silicon Motion, Zuken, Valeo In this Article MIPI Alliance Launches Automotive SerDes Compliance Program for A-PHY Ecosystem The MIPI Alliance has launched the MIPI A-PHY Compliance Program, establishing the industry’s first formal validation framework for an automotive serializer/deserializer standard. The program allows semiconductor manufacturers to verify that their A-PHY long-reach physical layer devices conform to standardized specifications. The initiative is structured to satisfy automotive original equipment manufacturer and Tier 1 supplier demands for multi-vendor interoperability, functional safety, and electromagnetic interference robustness within centralized software-defined vehicle compute architectures. MIPI A-PHY serves as a standardized, long-reach physical layer interface operating up to 15 meters, enabling high-speed data transmission from vehicle image sensors and displays to autonomous driving system controllers. The compliance infrastructure is being deployed in phased intervals, with the initial phase concentrating on physical layer verification via a reference compliance test suite. Subsequent expansion phases will encompass link-layer and protocol adaptation layer testing to ensure stable data transmission for higher-layer protocols running across the MIPI Automotive SerDes Solutions end-to-end network framework. To execute and manage the testing methodology, MIPI designated BitifEye Digital Test Solutions GmbH as the program’s first authorized test lab. BitifEye will oversee future inter-vendor plugfests and manage the official registry of A-PHY compliant hardware. Development of the verification criteria involved collaboration across component manufacturers and test equipment providers, including Keysight Technologies, Sony Semiconductor Solutions, Tektronix, Teledyne LeCroy, and Valens Semiconductor. Hyundai Mobis Adopts Open-Source Architecture to Drive Global SDV Platform Standardization <p”>Hyundai Mobis has joined the Software-Defined Vehicle Working Group under the Eclipse Foundation to participate in the S-Core Project, a global open-source initiative focused on standardizing foundational