Single-Chip Passive UHF RFID Tags and Readers

 

Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Specification of the proposed RFID reader

System Specification

Value

Frequency band

860MHz-960MHz

Transmitter Channel Bandwidth

500KHz for NA

200KHz for Europe

Receiver Channel Bandwidth

200KHz to 1.28MHz

BER

10-3

SNRout

7dB

Sensitivity

-90dBm

1dB compression point

-10dBm

Noise Figure

<15.9dB

IIP3

-5.5dBm

Phase noise of LO

-123dBc/Hz@1MHz

Output power (with external PA)

20dBm-27dBm (32 programmable steps)

Process

TSMC018

Supply voltage

1.8V

 

Specification of the proposed RFID tag

System Specification

Value

Frequency band

860MHz-960MHz

Modulation (Tag to Reader)

ASK or PSK

Data rate (Tag to Reader)

40kbps to 640kbps

Minimum input power

~50µW to 200µW

Read/write distance

3m to 10m

Chip area

~ 500 µm x 500 µm

Minimum reflected power

TBD

 

RFID Tag Architecture