Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Innovision Research and Technology
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 23 April 2007
SoC integration is
key to NFC acceptance
White paper makes the business case for SoC integration of near field communications
Widespread adoption of near field communications (NFC) is dependent on simple, low-cost integration of the technology into a wide range of electronic devices, such as mobile phones, laptops, point of sale and ticketing machines. According to Innovision Research and Technology, the creator of Topaz for NFC, the most effective way to integrate NFC into mass-market electronics devices is through system on chip (SoC) implementation in other common chipsets, for instance Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and ultrawideband.
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The business case for SoC implementations, highlighting the technical and commercial advantages, is outlined in Innovision's White Paper: 'NFC in the real world - moving to system on chip integration', published and presented last week by Heikki Huomo, CTO of Innovision R and T at WIMA 2007 in Monaco.
Innovision's White Paper - the third in a series of authoritative papers on NFC - examines the issues facing electronic product designers and manufacturers today, particularly how, when and where NFC can be integrated into new products.
'When to integrate NFC with other technologies is a key consideration, especially at this early adoption stage', said Huomo, speaking at last week's event.
Further reading
Near field communication in the real world
Innovision Research and Technology has published the second in its developing series of authoritative white papers on the overall theme 'Near field communication in the real world'
'Integrate too late and you could be left behind in the race to meet volume demand from a mass market cost - effectively, but time it right and you will see significant cost and commercial benefits in high volume production'.
In the paper, Innovision discusses how NFC is currently going through the classic integration cycle, with initial prototype implementations in mobile phones developed as cover units clipped on the back of the phone.
Cumbersome and expensive, they were never going to take off as mass consumer products.
Now, as NFC moves to the next level of integration, product designers have the choice of developing NFC chipsets to sit on electronic device motherboards, or moving to SoC implementations.
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