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UHF, EPCglobal Class 1b, Contactless Memory Chip FEATURES SUMMARY ePCglobal Class 1b Specification Passive Operation (No Battery Required) UHF Carrier Frequencies From 860MHz to 960MHz ISM Band Which Comply To: – North American Regulation – European Regulation – Similar Regulations ...
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XRA00 TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURES SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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Figure 21.XRA00 Scroll Answer Duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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XRA00 Figure 31.PingID Answer Response Period - Reader Modulations Define Response Bins . . . . . . 29 Quiet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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SUMMARY DESCRIPTION The XRA00 is a low-cost integrated circuit for use in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tran- sponders (tags) operating at UHF frequencies 128 bit memory organized as 8 blocks of 16 bits as shown in Table ...
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XRA00 DATA TRANSFER Input Data Transfer from the Reader to the XRA00 (Request Frame) The RF Interface and Voltage Multiplier convert the RF energy into the DC power required for the XRA00 to operate. It provides modulation informa- tion to ...
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Symbol Transmission Format for Request Frame Modulation of negative pulse width (RF interrup- tion period) is used for data transmission and syn- chronization to XRA00s. Four timings are distinguished by their shortness. Their symbols are as follows encode ...
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XRA00 Figure 8. Bin Response Window Timing Bin Pulse t fwhmBin = 3/8t 0 Figure 9. Transaction Gap Timing Transaction Gap Pulse t trangap = 10/8t 0 Previous Transaction Figure 10. Transaction after Power Up t reset The carrier is ...
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Table 2. Request Modulation Pulse Parameters for North American Operation ( 20 to 55°C) Symbol F UHF Carrier Frequency C t Master Clock Time Period for a single bit sent to the XRA00 0 T Master Clock Time Period Tolerance ...
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XRA00 Table 3. Request Modulation Pulse Parameters for European Operation ( 20 to 55°C) Symbol F UHF Carrier Frequency C t Master Clock Time Period for a single bit sent to the XRA00 0 t Master Clock Time Period Tolerance ...
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At the end of a complete transaction, a minimun delay 2.5t (but that cannot exceed tranhold 0 Figure 11. Reader to XRA00 Modulation Overview (Request Frame) t trangap or Carrier on Data Modulation Window t transetup (Variable ...
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XRA00 Coast Interval In order for the XRA00 to be able to detect the next Transaction Gap, the Reader must start the next transaction within t (see Figure coast Figure 15. Coast Interval End of prior sequence transaction gap or ...
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Output Data Transfer from the XRA00 to the Reader Answer Binary Data Bits 0 and 1. The scattered answer from the XRA00 is modulated by a selection of one out of two symbols per data bit cell. The data bit ...
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XRA00 Figure 19. Transmission of XRA00 Answers XRA00 Answer Bit Cell Variation. Durind Reader Request Frame command, the XRA00 synchronizes its internal PLL (Phase Lock Loop) to the Master Clock Time Period, t Figure 20. XRA00 Answer Bit Cell Variation ...
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SCROLLID Answer Delay from Reader BIN pulse (nominal value 4. tagscrollDel PINGID Answer Delay from Reader BIN Pulse (nominal value 4. XRA00 SCROLL answer duration (96+16+8 bits, nominal value t tagscrollRep 120 x t ...
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XRA00 Scroll Answer. The duration of a ScrollID an- swer illustrated in tagscrollRep Figure 21. XRA00 Scroll Answer Duration Bin Pulse READER TAG Figure 22. ScrollID Answer Delay Bin Pulse READER TAG PingID Answer Delay. The time ...
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Contention Detection Contention detection is essential for most anti-col- lision algorithms. When two XRA00 devices have the same clock rate and differ by only one bit, the resulting difference in backscatter modulation waveform should be readily detected by the Read- ...
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XRA00 MEMORY MAPPING The XRA00 is divided into 8 blocks of 16 bits. The device is read bit by bit and written block by block basis (16 bits at a time). The XRA00 memory map is shown ...
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COMMAND-REPLY System communications follow a two-phase com- mand-reply pattern where the Reader initiates the transaction (Reader Talks First, RTF). In the first phase, the Reader provides power to one or more passive XRA00 device(s) with continuous wave RF energy. The ...
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XRA00 Figure 26. XRA00 State Diagram Power-Up Power Loss ScrollAllID, ScrollID, VerifyID(1) or PingID Reply Reply complete Programming Commands 20/40 Power Not OK Power Up Power OK Invalid Command Quiet Command Command Awake Talk Command Programming Cycle Kill Command Completed ...
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GENERAL COMMAND FORMAT The XRA00 is expected to have limited oscillator (PLL) stability. In the Request Frame format, the Reader provides a serie of pulses to synchronize the XRA00’s internal oscillator at the beginning of each transaction. Answer Frames from ...
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XRA00 READER COMMAND STRUCTURE - (REQUEST FRAME COMMAND FORMAT) The format of a basic command from the Reader to the XRA00 is composed of 7 fields and 5 pieces of parity information as shown below: [SPINUP][SOF][CMD][P1][PTR][P2][LEN][P3] [VALUE][P4][P5][EOF] The Reader transmits ...
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Command Encoding For encoding the two sets of commands, Basic and Programming, are also distinguished. Table 6. Basic Command Encoding 8-Bit Pattern Basic Commands [CMD] MSB <- LSB SCROLLID QUIET KILL PINGID TALK SCROLLALLID Table 7. Programming Command Encoding Programming ...
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XRA00 BASIC COMMANDS - OVERVIEW The XRA00 provides six Basic commands, de- scribed in the following paragraphs. ScrollID The ScrollID command is a Basic command that gives rise to a response from the XRA00. When the ScrollID command is issued, ...
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ScrollID Answer Frame Description The XRA00 devices that respond to a ScrollID command reply by modulating an eight bit pream- ble (11111110) followed by a 16-bit CRC and the entire XRA00 96-bit ePC code as shown in 27. The XRA00 ...
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XRA00 ScrollAllID Answer Frame Description XRA00 devices that respond to a ScrollAllID com- mand reply by modulating an eight bit preamble (7Fh) followed by a 16-bit CRC and the entire XRA00 96-bit ePC code. The XRA00 devices start by modulating ...
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Figure 29. Kill Signaling Prior sequence transaction gap or carrier off Spin up 20 0's 64µs 000000000000000000000 Data Kill Pointer Length 16 bit CRC always ...
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XRA00 PingID The PingID command is a Basic command that gives rise to a response from the XRA00. When the command is sent, the XRA00 will re- spond if the data sent by the Reader in the [VAL- UE] field ...
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Windows delineated by BIN pulses from the Reader after a Setup time. The 3 bits of XRA00 memory that come immedi- ately after the matched data determine the partic- ular Bin Response Window for an XRA00 reply. XRA00 devices ...
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XRA00 Figure 32. Example of a Quiet Request Frame Signaling EOF 7t 0 Quiet, Talk Commands 1 Talk XRA00 devices that match the data sent by the Reader return to the Awake state, where they will respond to commands from ...
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PROGRAMMING COMMANDS - OVERVIEW Programming commands use the same command structure and field definitions as the Basic com- mands, but are issued only by an XRA00 program- mer. An XRA00 programmer may be similar to a Read- er, except that ...
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XRA00 Lock Function The Lock function is implemented by programming a specific value into the lock bits of the XRA00, us- ing the ProgramID command. In order to lock the XRA00, the 8 upper bits of the row 7 must ...
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ANTI-COLLISION ALGORITHM The PingID command divides a population of XRA00 devices into eight sub-populations based on their ID code by binning XRA00 responses into eight separate time slices, or Bin Response Win- dows. This binning provides the basis for an ...
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XRA00 Using this information, the Reader may issue a second PingID command to explore the popula- tion of XRA00 devices in bin 3, reserving the XRA00 devices detected in bin 5 for later analysis: Query 2 [CMD] = 00001000 (PingID) ...
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Figure 37. Query Tree for the Two PingID Sequence Query 111 011 101 1111 0111 1011 0011 1101 10111 110111 1110111 0110111 1010111 Figure 38. Reader Modulations and XRA00 Backscatter During PingID Reply for Query 2 000 ...
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XRA00 ANTI-COLLISION FEATURES Several features of this anti-collision approach de- serve mention: Each transaction with the XRA00 field is a self- contained operation. A command - reply pair is an atomic transaction requiring no knowledge of previous events from a ...
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XRA00 IMPEDANCE PARAMETERS The XRA00 parameters are specified in Tables and 17. Table 16. XRA00 Parameters Symbol Description t Storage Temperature STG Minimum Operating voltage on the V OP antenna V Electrostatic Discharge Voltage ESD Note: 1. Mil. Std. 883 ...
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... W4I = 180µm ± 15µm unsawn Inkless wafer SBN18I = 180µm ± 15µm Bumped and Sawn Inkless Wafer Customer Code XXX = Customer Code, given by STMicroelectronics Note: Initial delivery state: devices on wafers are shipped from the factory with the memory contents cleared to all “0’s” (00h). ...
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REVISION HISTORY Table 20. Document Revision History Date Version 15-Dec-2004 0.1 First Issue V ESD 21-Oct-2005 2 removed. Revision Details values for 8-inch wafers added to Table 16., XRA00 Table 18., 8-inch Wafer XRA00 Impedance Parameters XRA00 Parameters. Parallel model ...
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