A Field Programmable RFID Tag and Associated Design Flow

Jones, Alex K.; Hoare, Raymond R.; Dontharaju, Swapna; Tung, Shenchih; Sprang, Ralph; Fazekas, J.; Cain, James T.; Mickle, Marlin H.

doi:10.1109/fccm.2006.7

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“…Furthermore, the approach of an automatic generation of hardware modules out of highlevel descriptions, as it is common practice in chip design [60], is demonstrated on the example of encoding and decoding units in RFID [61,62]. Untangling standard compatibility issues and automating the design flow for a multi-standard active RFID tag are addressed in the study by [63]. The setup of a generic measurement and test platform based on LabVIEW is shown in [64].…”

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Evaluation and exploration of RFID systems by rapid prototyping

Angerer¹,

Langwieser²,

Rupp³

2011

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Today's RFID systems exhibit relatively little functionality, while future systems and ubiquitous computing applications require an ample set of general purpose features, like wide communication ranges, high data rates, high reliability, and many more. In order to meet these high-performance goals, several challenges in state of the art RFID systems need to be managed: (1) the compatibility of RFID equipment, working according to different standards in various frequency domains, (2) the thorough understanding of the performance impact of physical layer system parameters, (3) the venture of novel wireless technologies in the context of RFID, and finally, (4) to deal with the increased complexity of high-performance RFID systems. Therefore, designers desire a highly configurable, flexible, and high-performance RFID environment to experimentally explore the underlying physical conditions and to evaluate novel RFID technologies and designs. This paper introduces the concept of rapid prototyping in RFID and provides a survey of system simulators, demonstrators, and rapid prototyping environments. A guideline for the setup for such a rapid prototyping system applicable for RFID is presented, and its implementation is demonstrated. Finally, some exemplary measurements carried out with this rapid prototyping system are presented.

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Section: Rapid Prototyping Environments For Rfidmentioning

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Evaluation and exploration of RFID systems by rapid prototyping

Angerer¹,

Langwieser²,

Rupp³

2011

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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“…The RFID Compiler is a transactional level design automation tool that generates a state machine that can be realized on a COTS microprocessor through an optional C source output that can be further compiled to the microprocessor using an target specific C compiler [Jones et al 2006a;]. The state machine output in VHDL can be realized for a target Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) for prototyping [Jones et al 2006b]. It can also be realized in silicon with the appropriate technology files [Jones et al 2006a;].…”

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A design automation and power estimation flow for RFID systems

Dontharaju

Tung

Cain

et al. 2009

ACM Trans. Des. Autom. Electron. Syst.

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While RFID has become a ubiquitous technology, there is still a need for RFID systems with different capabilities, protocols, and features depending on the application. This article describes a design automation flow and power estimation technique for fast implementation and design feedback of new RFID systems. Physical layer features are described using waveform features, which are used to automatically generate physical layer encoding and decoding hardware blocks. RFID primitives to be supported by the tag are enumerated with RFID macros and the behavior of each primitive is specified using ANSI-C within the template to automatically generate the tag controller. Case studies implementing widely used standards such as ISO 18000 Part 7 and ISO 18000 Part 6C using this automation technique are presented. The power macromodeling flow demonstrated here is shown to be within 5% to 10% accuracy, while providing results 100 times faster than traditional methods. When eliminating the need for certain features of ISO 18000 Part 6C, the design flow shows that the power required by the implementation is reduced by nearly 50%. ACM Reference Format: Dontharaju, S., Tung, S., Cain, J. T., Mats, L., Mickle, M. H., and Jones, A. K. 2009. A design automation and power estimation flow for RFID systems.

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Open Platform Semi-passive RFID Tag

Borisenko

Bolić

2012

Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks

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A Field Programmable RFID Tag and Associated Design Flow

Cited by 12 publications

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Evaluation and exploration of RFID systems by rapid prototyping

Evaluation and exploration of RFID systems by rapid prototyping

A design automation and power estimation flow for RFID systems

Open Platform Semi-passive RFID Tag

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