Single-Chip Passive UHF RFID Tags and Readers

 

Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Project Goal

The goal of our team is to provide a novel design of a RFID Tag and Reader baseband system , which should be low power consumption, small size and low cost.

 

Project Description

In our projects, it can be divided into three main parts:

·        Algorithm and Architecture design

·        RTL coding

·        SimuLink Co-verification

 

Faculty

Prof. Vincent K. N. LAU ( )

Prof. Chi-Ying TSUI ( )

 

Research Assistant

Hin Tat CHAN ( )

Sau Wing MAN ( )

Shunqing ZHANG ( )

 

Tracking Record and Accomplishment

Stage

Milestone

Status

Phase I

(June 1, 2005

Aug 31, 2005)

1)       Specification study

      Understand the requirement

      Schedule Planning

Accomplished

Phase II

(Sep 1, 2005

Oct 30, 2005)

1)       Algorithm design

      PIE Decoding Simulation

      Tag Architecture Design

Accomplished

Phase III

(Nov 1, 2005

Jan 31, 2006)

1)     RTL coding for the Front End of Tag

2)     Layout and tape-out of Tag Front End

3)     Tag System Simulation in Simulink

Accomplished

Accomplished

Accomplished

Phase IV

(Feb 1, 2006

Apr 30, 2006)

1)       RTL coding and Design for Tag

2)       Tag RTL integration and Testing

3)       Layout and tape-out of Tag BaseBand system

on-going

on-going

on-going

Phase V

(May 1, 2006

Aug 31, 2006)

1)     Algorithm design of Reader RX Front End

2)     Reader Architecture and Simulink Design

3)     Reader RTL coding and verification

4)     Reader RTL integration

5)     Layout and tape-out of Reader Baseband system

on-going

on-going

on-going

on-going

on-going

Phase VI

(Aug 1, 2006

Oct 30, 2006)

 

 

 

Architecture

Tag Baseband Architecture

Architecture of Tag Baseband

 

Layout

Tag Baseband Layout

Layout of Tag Baseband

 

Die Photo

Tag Baseband Die Photo

Die Photo of Tag Baseband