This paper describes an automotive SerDes link and how it interfaces to electronic processing components using MIPI conduits. It also shows an end-to-end testing scheme for such a SerDes link, deploying introspection generators and analyzers to respectively stress receiver electrical parameters and analyze transmitter protocol and physical layer behavior. The paper illustrates the use of active probes to monitor live traffic, and also demonstrates the use of introspect analyzers as terminating end-points, featuring fully integrated switchable termination resistors as per the MIPI Alliance specifications.
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MIPI, automotive, testing, embedded, software