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Innovision launches next-generation NFC/RFID tag platform
with up to 2Kbytes memory, sampling available second half of 2008
Innovision Research & Technology
June 11, 2008
Innovision Research & Technology has launched a
next-generation NFC/RFID tag platform offering up to 2Kbytes of
memory. This new IC platform allows RFID and Near Field
Communication (NFC) integrators to select the optimal tag for their
application performance and price requirements.
It is intended to meet demand for high volume, small size, lower
cost RFID/NFC tags for integration into smart objects, providing a
family of devices finely tuned to their specific application
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The additional memory sizes in the platform have increased from
today's 96Bytes up to 512Bytes and it now offers even faster
read/write/test operation speeds. These meet or exceed the data
storage requirements for all anticipated non-payment NFC
applications, including peer-to-peer connectivity, service
initiation and Smart Posters. These larger memories will also allow
developers to use digital signatures for more secure RFID/NFC
applications.
With a product roadmap providing memories up to 2Kbytes already
specified by the NFC Forum, the platform is designed to offer
maximum flexibility to the smart object implementation NFC market.
Innovision's latest tag IC platform is also
capable of providing on-chip capacitance up to 250pF in some cases
to support miniature antenna designs, which enable the industry's
smallest RFID/NFC tag form factors. The platform is both
backwards-compatible with the company's existing Jewel and Topaz
RFID/NFC products, and forwards-compatible for new releases of
consumer products meeting the NFC minimum level of interoperability
(MLOI) specifications. First samples of product based on the
platform are expected to be available in the second half of 2008.
This latest release from the British NFC innovator responds to
feedback from current industry events and ongoing NFC projects such
as the O2 consumer trial. In this trial five hundred existing O2 and
Oyster customers are using NFC mobile phone handsets to read
information embedded in Topaz 96Byte tags on Smart Posters and in a
card wallet, to access information, special offers and VIP benefits
throughout London. 96Bytes is the perfect amount of memory for
storing URL and SMS requirements for today's applications.
About Innovision Research & Technology plc
Innovision Research & Technology plc, is
leading the next generation of NFC/RFID solutions. As the leading
fabless developer of short-range data communication semiconductor
and system solutions, with particular focus on NFC/RFID (Radio
Frequency Identification) and ultra low-cost Integrated Circuit (IC)
and RF electronic design, IRT is pushing cost performance to enable
clients to get maximum utility for minimum cost.
The company develops innovative semiconductor technologies, ICs, RF
systems (HF/UHF) and complete end product applications for mass
volume commercialisation and then licenses customers for its
incorporation into their own products.
At the heart of the emerging Near Field Communication (NFC) market,
Innovision R&T designs and develops NFC/RFID IC solutions for the
global mobile handset and consumer device sectors.
Products include Topaz, mandated by the NFC Forum as the NFC number
one tag type format, Jewel for mass transit ticketing applications,
and io, the world's smallest standards compatible Near-Field RFID
reader.
Headquartered in the UK , Innovision R&T was listed in 2001 on the
Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange
(ticker symbol: INN ). |
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