The analog circuits that let MIPI travel farther than its specification assumes.
Where the interface stops, the circuits that carry it farther, a link that does not convert, and how a number is stated.
A product page says what a part does. This section says why the figure on the datasheet holds — which circuits are responsible, what they were designed against, and where each number was measured.
SUGARS AI designs mixed-signal ICs for one interface, MIPI, and for one problem: the interface was specified for the distances inside a phone, and the systems now being built need the signal to cross more. Whether the signal comes off a camera module in a test socket or off a sensor at the far end of a cable on a robot, what decides whether it can be read is the analog circuit that receives it.
Those circuits are the company's own. There is no third-party PHY IP in the signal path. And no figure on this site is published without the condition it was measured under — or, for a part still in development, without the label that it is a design target.
One interface, two physical layers, and a channel budget written for the inside of a phone.
The circuits between the cable and the logic — and why the logic cannot undo what they miss.
Two ways to carry MIPI farther, what each one costs, and when each one is right.
Where a figure was measured, and the difference between a receiver's number and a transmitter's.