With the trend in the automotive industry moving toward autonomous driving, intelligent cockpits, and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) connectivity, the demand for long-distance, high-speed, and highly reliable data transmission within vehicles is increasing. To help accelerate the adoption of the MIPI A-PHY specification, the MIPI A-PHY Compliance Program Test Event will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, from December 8 to 12, 2025. It is jointly hosted by MIPI Alliance, BitifEye Digital Test Solutions GmbH, and iPasslabs, and will take place at the iPasslabs Taipei laboratory. This event will provide for the first time ever MIPI A-PHY physical layer validation services in Asia as well as strong technical support to the smart automotive industry.

In the past, connections between in-vehicle sensors, displays, and electronic control units relied on proprietary technologies from various vendors, lacking a common standard. MIPI A-PHY is the industry’ s first standardized automotive high-speed transmission interface, designed as a SerDes physical layer specifically for automotive applications. Its features include long-reach and high-speed transmission, asymmetric data link, and high reliability. It is primarily used in applications such as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), in-vehicle infotainment systems (IVI), and supporting functional safety and security. As an open standard, many key vendors, including Bosch, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Intel, Samsung, and Sony, have joined its ecosystem. This means automakers can source compatible components from different suppliers, reducing single-vendor risk and lowering costs through production at scale.

For the MIPI A-PHY Compliance Program Test Event at iPasslabs in Taipei, iPasslabs will provide advanced test equipment and a professional technical team to assist participating member companies in validating their MIPI A-PHY related products. For instrument vendors and the member companies, this is a rare opportunity to obtain highly valuable test results, which can be used to optimize their products or technology.

As a leading provider of the high-speed signal transmission validation service, iPasslabs is continuously expanding our professional expertise and is committed to providing the most comprehensive high-speed signal validation services. To this end, iPasslabs honorly has established a strategic partnership with BitifEye. This event marks a great start to our collaboration. BitifEye plays a key role in the development of MIPI A-PHY standards, and their extensive experience and technical capabilities bring significant value to iPasslabs. Together, we aim to provide top-tier professional services to customers worldwide, creating a win-win situation.

“We are excited about our partnership with iPasslabs. Our new, joint test lab, operated by BitifEye iPasslabs Test Services Europe GmbH (BITS) in Boeblingen, Germany, and iPasslab’s test labs in Asia Pacific, offer MIPI A-PHY adopters global services and expertise”, said Alexander Schmitt, CEO and co-founder of BitifEye.

"We are honored to receive the recognition from the MIPI Alliance following our partnership with BitifEye, and subsequently the MIPI A-PHY Compliance Test Event will be held at iPasslabs in Taipei," said Eric Shen, CEO of iPasslabs. "Leveraging our expertise as PCIe Authorized Test Lab and our capabilities in high-speed signal validation, iPasslabs will make efforts to ensure the success of this event. Our goal is to enable that all vendors dedicated to MIPI A-PHY chip development and full-system integration can obtain the necessary information and solutions from this event, accelerating their go-to-market timelines and meeting their demands."

About the MIPI A PHY Compliance Test Program
Initiated by the A-PHY Working Group, the compliance program is being established to help ensure that MIPI A-PHY® and A-PHY-related specifications in MIPI's Automotive SerDes Solutions (MASS™) framework meet the industry’s needs and requirements. The program focuses on testing A-PHY first, using the recently published A-PHY Reference Compliance Test Suite.
For more information, please visit: https://www.mipi.org/specifications/a-phy

About BitifEye
BitifEye Digital Test Solutions GmbH is a recognized market leader in physical-layer receiver testing for high-speed digital interfaces. Founded in 2005 and headquartered near Stuttgart, Germany, the company provides specialized automated test solutions and actively contributes to international standardization committees that define today’s digital interconnect technologies.
BitifEye develops the ValiFrame Test Automation software and complementary test accessories that integrate seamlessly with Keysight Technologies’ instrumentation. Together, BitifEye and Keysight offer highly automated, application-specific test systems used by semiconductor and consumer electronics companies, as well as by independent test laboratories.
BitifEye understands digital bus standards and provides compliance and conformance test products for PCI Express®, Serial ATA®, SAS, USB®, HDMI®, DisplayPort®, MIPI M-PHY®, MIPI D-PHY®, MIPI C-PHY®, UFS®, Automotive Ethernet, MIPI A-PHY® and more.
BitifEye is the only certified test lab in Europe authorized to offer PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 compliance testing, in partnership with iPasslabs.
For more information, please visit https://www.bitifeye.com/

About iPasslabs
Established in 2021, iPasslabs became a PCI-SIG Authorized Test Lab within four years, making it the first one in Asia. iPasslabs is dedicated to providing the industry's most advanced and professional high-speed signal transmission interface turnkey services. From initial simulation and validation tests to customized load boards and test fixtures, iPasslabs efficiently assists customers in completing their product development phases and accelerating their time-to-market. Its clientele, spanning countries such as Taiwan, the United States, South Korea, Malaysia, and Israel, includes key players in the AI ecosystem developing critical components like AI accelerators and AI servers.