NFC - Near Field Communication

Innovision have been involved in near-field data communication systems from the start. Innovision has partnered with a major global handset manufacturer to develop "best in class" NFC architectures, designs and silicon implementations to ensure NFC chipsets can achieve not only optimised technical performance, small physical size, and low power consumption whilst meeting tight cost targets.

Innovision has developed Gem™ NFC coreware IP that has been optimised for low power implementations and is therefore highly efficient; for example, offering automatic wake-up mode, with less than 10µA battery drain when idle. From its deep knowledge of Near Field RFID Antenna's Innovision has also been able to reduce the number of off-chip components to a minimum, so again preserving power, cost and physical area.

Innovision is a principal member of the NFC Forum and currently chairs the tags and formats task force working group, helping to develop the future NFC standards for payment, ticketing, peer-to-peer connectivity and service initiation implementations.

Innovision's NFC proposition :

• Gem - System-on-Chip IP for Near Field Communications (NFC)
• Custom NFC IC design solutions for both single chip implementations or integrated System on Chip (SoC) custom solutions for a range of IC platforms such as Bluetooth, WiFi, UWB, WiMax and more.
• Custom Antenna modelling to enable optimised antenna solutions for ODM/Product manufacturers seeking to efficiently implement NFC devices into their products.
• Topaz - mandated by NFC Forum as the Type 1 NFC Forum Tag Format.

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Information on the latest Topaz tag form factors or get a quote for Topaz

Come and meet us!

Innovision will be attending a number of NFC events over the next 12 months.

View Innovision R&T's white papers on NFC and other RFID topics.

NFC News from Innovision

Topaz tagged wristbands triumph at O2 Wireless Festival

Innovision R&T launches next generation NFC/RFID tag platform with up to 2Kbytes memory, sampling available 2H/2008

Touch Topaz to get the Party started as Parrot launch first NFC-enabled speaker

Winners of UK NFC competition find novel uses for new generation of NFC tags

Innovision takes NFC tags mainstream in O2's first Near Field Communication consumer trial