ISO/IEC 14443 type A/B Analog Front End (AFE) compliant with the NFC standards

Overview

Key Features

• fully compliant with the ISO/IEC 14443 standard
• fully compliant with the relevant ISO/IEC 10373-6 tests
• contactless transmission of both data and power
• support both Type A and Type B transmission protocols
• supported bit rates (Rx and Tx):
• - classical: 106, 212, 424 and 848 kbit/s
• - VHBR (optional): 1.69 Mbit/s and 3.39 Mbit/s (Rx at 3.39 Mbit/s under validation)
• RF front end including the two antenna pads, a tuning capacitor, several demodulators, a clock extractor and a load modulator
• power manager including a LDO regulator, a voltage reference and a power-on reset generator
• typical delivered power supply current going up to 10 mA (Ivdd)
• typical quiescent power consumption lower than 50 µW (excluding Ivdd)
• operating junction temperature range: -25°C to +85°C
• straightforward integration through a NFC-WI (ECMA 373) standard interface
• silicon proven in 130 nm and 55 nm CMOS processes
• silicon area smaller than 0.8 mm² in a 130 nm process with poly capacitors and HV devices
• digital controller available separately (Type A and Type B)

Benefits

• ISO/IEC 14443-A/B compliant
• ISO/IEC 10373-6 compliant
• NFC-WI (ECMA 373) compliant
• Wireless power harvesting
• Silicon proven

Deliverables

• GDSII stream and layer map file
• Library Exchange Format (LEF) file
• Circuit Description Language (CDL) netlist
• Liberty Timing File (.lib)
• VHDL behavioral model
• design specification

Technical Specifications