MIPI D-PHY is a practical PHY for typical camera and display applications. It is designed to replace traditional parallel bus based on LVCMOS or LVDS. However, many processors and displays/cameras still use RGB, CMOS, or MIPI Display Pixel Interface (DPI) as interface.
The Parallel to MIPI reference design allows the quick interface for a processor with an RGB interface to a display with a MIPI DSI interface or a camera with a CMOS interface to a processor with CSI-2 interface. The Lattice Semiconductor Parallel to MIPI D-PHY Interface reference design provides this conversion for Lattice Semiconductor CrossLink™-NX devices. This is useful for wearable, tablet, human machine interfacing, medical equipment and many other applications.