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MIPI Alliance, BitifEye, and iPasslabs will Co-Host MIPI A-PHY Compliance Test Event, Accelerating Smart Automotive Industry Development.

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. Please find the event details here. If you are interested in participation, please let MIPI A-PHY know by submitting the interest form.

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.

Please find the event details here: https://www.mipi.org/a-phy-compliance-program-test-event-december-2025

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.

iPasslabs now supports PCIe® 5.0 32.0 GT/s official compliance test!

作者： mkt • June 12, 2026

Many products in the market continue to deploy on PCIe® 5.0 platforms, while increasing attention is being placed on the validation stage to ensure product performance, credibility, and stronger market competitiveness. To help customers accelerate validation processes without being limited by time or location, iPasslabs, a PCI-SIG® Authorized Test Lab, is now expanding its official compliance capability to support PCIe® 5.0 at 32.0 GT/s. Since becoming the first PCI-SIG® Authorized Test Lab (ATL) in Asia in 2025, iPasslabs has provided official compliance testing services for PCIe® 4.0 and PCIe® 5.0 up to 16.0 GT/s. We are now further expanding our capability to support PCIe® 5.0 32.0 GT/s official compliance testing, helping customers move more smoothly from Pre-test to Official Compliance Testing. At the same time, PCIe® 6.0 has officially entered the compliance era. Starting from PCI-SIG® Compliance Test Workshop #140, PCIe® 6.0 products are eligible to register for official compliance testing. However, before official certification, Pre-test has become more critical than ever. With the introduction of 64.0 GT/s PAM4 signaling, PCIe® 6.0 significantly increases validation complexity and much higher demands on Signal Integrity, Interoperability, and testing know-how. With extensive experience supporting customer DUTs during official compliance validation and hands-on expertise gained from on-site participation in PCI-SIG® Compliance Workshops, iPasslabs helps customers reduce development risk, improve compliance readiness, and accelerate time-to-market.

iPasslabs officially joined the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA)!

作者： mkt • June 12, 2026

Driven by the rapid advancement of AI, data centers are evolving in high-performance “Compute Factories” that power generative AI, large-scale model training, and high-speed inference. As networking architectures continue to evolve from 400G and 800G toward 1.6T, high-speed interconnect technologies have become a critical factor in determining overall computing efficiency. Ensuring interoperability, signal integrity, and system reliability across high-speed networking environments is now a key challenge for the industry. iPasslabs officially joined the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) ecosystem this year and participated in the 43rd InfiniBand™ and RoCE Plugfest in June, marking an important milestone toward Scale-Out Networking validation technologies. Moving forward, iPasslabs will continue to actively engage in technical forums, plugfests, and standards collaboration related to InfiniBand, RoCE, Ethernet, and next-generation Scale-Out Network architectures, accelerating the development of advanced validation capabilities for AI networking infrastructure. Years of expertise in high-speed interface validation, iPasslabs delivers comprehensive solutions covering Ethernet, InfiniBand, optica Communication, and electrical integration tests. From simulation and analysis, pre-test services, to official interoperability validation, iPasslabs helps customers reduce design risks, overcome high-speed transmission challenges, and accelerate time-to-market. As an active member and working group partners of the IEEE, PCI-SIG®, and IBTA, iPasslabs is deeply involved in these technical standards and ecosystem collaboration. By closely following the latest specifications and testing requirements, the company provides trusted, one-stop services aligned with evolving industry demands. In the global race to build AI infrastructure, iPasslabs is committed to becoming the industry's most trusted high-speed interconnect validation partner, empowering customers to meet the challenges of networking and AI data centers. As an active member and working group partners of the IEEE, PCI-SIG®, and IBTA, iPasslabs is deeply involved in these technical standards and ecosystem collaboration. By closely following the latest specifications and testing requirements, the company provides trusted, one-stop services aligned with evolving industry demands. In the global race to build AI infrastructure, iPasslabs is committed to becoming the industry's most trusted high-speed interconnect validation partner, empowering customers to meet the challenges of networking and AI data centers.

iPasslabs 開始提供PCIe® 5.0 32.0 GT/s 官方驗證服務

作者： mkt • June 12, 2026

市場上仍有許多產品持續部署於 PCIe® 5.0 平台，也越來越多產品重視驗證階段，更能證明其效能的可信度跟產業競爭力。為協助客戶加速驗證流程、不受限於時間地點，身為 PCI-SIG®認證實驗室的 iPasslabs，現正式擴展 PCIe® 5.0 32.0 GT/s 官方驗證服務能力。自 2025 年正式成為亞洲第一家 PCI-SIG® 認證實驗室，iPasslabs 已提供 PCIe® 4.0 與 PCIe® 5.0（最高至 16.0 GT/s）官方驗證服務。如今，我們進一步支援 PCIe® 5.0 32.0 GT/s 正式驗證測試，協助客戶從 Pre-test 到 Official Compliance Test更順利完成驗證流程。同時，PCIe® 6.0 也正式進入官方認證時代。自 PCI-SIG® Compliance Test Workshop #140 起，PCIe® 6.0 產品報名官方認證測試。然而，在正式認證之前，Pre-test重要性比以往更加關鍵。PCIe® 6.0 導入PAM4 訊號技術，大幅提高驗證複雜度，對於訊號完整性、互通性以及測試 know-how 都提出更高要求。憑藉豐富的客戶 DUT 正式驗證支援以及參與 PCI-SIG Compliance Workshop現場測試的實務經驗，iPasslabs 擅長協助客戶降低開發風險、提升認證效率，加速產品上市。