| Why
Should You Care About RFID?
 I
could give you a million reasons
why you should care about RFID
technology in 2006. In fact, I
will offer
you
exactly 504 million of them --
$504 million, that is. According
to a recent
projection by Gartner, Inc.,
worldwide RFID spending totaled
some $504 million in 2005, up
39% from 2004.
Five
hundred million isn't enough for
you? How does 3 billion sound?
That's the number (in U.S.
dollars) that Gartner expects
worldwide RFID spending to
surpass by 2010. It's also the
estimated quantity of RFID tags
that will be shipped in China by
2009, according to In-Stat.
Still not
impressed? Let's up the ante to
8.8 billion. Frost and Sullivan
(bullishly) predicts that RFID-related
technology spending in the
hospital marketplace alone will
reach $8.8 billion by 2010. With
numbers like this being thrown
around, RFID is clearly a market
that deserves at least a little
of your attention.
Click
here to read more.
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EPCglobal
Class 1 Generation 2 For Users
By WJ Communications, Inc.
Numerous vendors have announced
upgrades to existing RFID readers, as well as new reader models, to
support tags that comply with the EPCglobal Class 1 Generation 2 standard.
And by the end of 2005, several tag manufacturers were supplying these
"Gen 2" tags in quantity. This
article provides an introduction to the Gen 2 standard, in order to
help users make optimal use of the new capabilities provided by Gen 2 tags and
readers...
High
Performance Laminate Materials For RFID Antennas
By Russell Hornung and Jack Frankosky, Arlon
Materials For Electronics
A wave of development by the very large and
well-established players in antenna design and manufacture has led to tremendous
technical advances in the performance of reader antennas for RFID. RFID
reader OEMs and antenna design companies are using a wide variety of
materials for their specialty, high-performance RFID reader antenna
designs. This paper provides an overview of some of these materials and the
value they provide to RFID designers...
Evolution
Of The 13.56 MHz RFID Transceiver
By Denis Ruffieux, Oleksandr Zhuk, and Patrick
Albert, Melexis NV
In
2006, RFID transceiver manufacturers face many new challenges. An overwhelming
number of standards could lead to overspecified circuits. Market segmentation
and architecture optimization have become the keys to offering value to
customers in this arena. This article describes the evolution of the
architecture for 13.56 MHz RFID transceiver ICs and also outlines the various
alternatives IC manufacturers have to consider...
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Modeling
An RFID Tag Antenna
By Flomerics
Inc.
One of the most important
elements of the RFID system is the tag
or antenna. Flomerics' MicroStripes
software allows arbitrary shaped antenna structures to be easily
created, then the return loss and
radiation pattern can be accurately predicted. This
application note details the modeling
of a UHF RFID tag. The analysis shows
the influence on the return of the material on which the tag is mounted...
RFID
And NFC Measurements With The Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer
By Tektronix
RFID and Near Field Communications (NFC)
technologies share a variety of uncommon engineering measurement challenges.
Transient signals, bandwidth inefficient modulations, backscattered data, and
passive tags all require special measurement capabilities. This application note
examines the Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer's (RTSA) ability to provide diagnostic
insight into RFID measurement challenges...
Using
Electromagnetic Analysis For RFID Antenna Design
By Sonnet
Software, Inc.
RFID has become a major market, and the number of
vendors in this sector is constantly growing. To achieve success in this space,
vendors must achieve short times-to-market, making fast and accurate
electromagnetic (EM) analysis an absolute requirement. This application note
demonstrates the design of a 13.56 MHz RFID inductor and a 900 MHz RFID antenna
using Sonnet EM simulation software...
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| Featured Products |
RFID
Phase-Locked Loop Modules
Sirenza
Microdevices has developed three phase-locked loop (PLL)
modules targeting RF reader
applications. These PLLs integrate a VCO, PLL IC, loop filter components,
and buffer amplifiers in an extremely small form factor (0.8" x
0.58"). These devices offer excellent phase noise peformance demanded
by RF reader applications... |
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RFID Components, Antennas, And Services
M/A-COM
offers a complete line of RFID antennas, RF components, and value-added
assembly services. The complete line of M/A-COM RF components for readers
includes a low barrier IQ modulator that replaces a discrete balun, as
well as quadrature and schottky diodes with a single, monolithic device... |
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Conductive
Inks For Screen-Printing RFID Antennas
DuPont
Microcircuit Materials has recently introduced the 5033, a conductive ink
specially designed for clean, cost-effective production of antennas for
RFID tags and labels. DuPont MCM's screen-printable conductive ink
allows the production of RFID labels based on any substrate for any
application... |
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W-Band
Solid-State Pulsed Radar High Power Front-End Subsystem
QuinStar
Technology's W-Band solid-state pulsed radar front-end subsystem is a 1
Watt (+30 dBm) pulsed-power amplifier with variable pulse rate and duty
factor. The transmitter channel delivers 1 W (+30dBm) transmitter power
with a dynamic power range of 75 dB at the frequency range of 92 to 96
GHz. The receiver channel has noise figure of 6.5 dB over the band... |
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RFID Software Platform
RFID Anywhere is a comprehensive software platform from iAnywhere for building and deploying RFID solutions. RFID Anywhere provides the abstraction of hardware, standards and protocols, along with simulation tools and management capabilities in a service-oriented architecture... |
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RF Wirewound Chip Inductors
These high frequency High-Q chip inductors from Johanson Technology feature a monolithic body made of low-loss ceramic wound with wire to achieve optimal high frequency performance. They are compact in size and feature 100% tin plated nickel barrier terminations... |
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Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers
Tektronix RSA2200A and RSA3300A Series Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers capture many signals not viewable on swept spectrum analyzers by seamlessly capturing and storing a span of RF frequencies all at one time... |
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Electromagnetic Simulation Tool
MicroStripes from Flomerics is an electromagnetic simulation tool enabling design of RF components, microwave devices, and antennas. MicroStripes uses solver technology based on the 3D time-domain TLM method to generate a full-spectrum broadband analysis in a single calculation... |
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High Dynamic Range Amplifier
The WJ Communications AH1 is a high dynamic range amplifier in a low-cost surface-mount package. The AH1 combines a low noise figure and high output IP3 at the same bias point... |
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13.56
MHz RFID Transceiver
The MLX90121 from Melexis is an ISO-compliant contactless smart label and smart card transceiver circuit. It includes user-selectable modulation depth in write mode, whereas single sub-carrier ASK, FSK, and PSK modulations are recognized in the read
mode... |
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Laminate Composites For
RF/Microwave Applications
FoamClad R/F 100 is a novel family of laminate composites manufactured by Arlon Materials For Electronics. It consists of a low
permitivity microporous polymeric core bonded to an impermeable copperclad polymer film overlay that provides a low composite dielectric
constant. Typical applications include RFID reader antennas and specialty
RFID tags... | |
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