Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: NXP (formerly Philips Semiconductors) | Subject: Ucode EPC G2
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 4 April 2005
RFID chip meets
latest EPCglobal standard
Philips has produced the first engineering samples of an RFID chip compliant with EPCglobal's UHF Electronic Product Code (EPC) Class 1 Generation 2 (G2) standard
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Philips has produced, supplied and - in co-operation with its industry partners - tested first engineering samples of an RFID chip compliant with EPCglobal's UHF Electronic Product Code (EPC) Class 1 Generation 2 (G2) standard. With an increasing number of mandates from major retailers and organisations such as the Department of Defense, consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies and other suppliers around the world are moving towards implementing RFID technology in their supply chains.
Philips' Ucode EPC G2 chip features better performance characteristics than any other solution to date and provides regulatory compliance to simplify worldwide implementations of RFID.
With the availability of Class 1 G2 solutions, both prior UHF technology solutions (Class 0 and Class 1 Generation 1) standardised by EPCglobal can now be replaced.
Mandating organisations, such as major retailers and their suppliers, can now install readers and use tag solutions that support this worldwide standard.
EPC G2 also addresses the differing regional regulatory environments for the UHF bands allocated for RFID, allowing UHF to be used worldwide enabling these organisations to deploy a unified RFID supply chain infrastructure throughout the world.
In order to reduce the time to market of solutions based on the EPC G2 specification, Philips has created a taskforce of companies to develop an end-to-end solution.
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The companies taking part in this initiative are ASK, Checkpoint, Deister Electronic, Feig, Intermec, Omron, SAMSys, Thingmagic, UPM Rafsec and X-Ident.
These organisations have committed to develop labels, hardware and solutions based on Philips' EPC G2 product during Q2 2005, aiming for availability of the first components in the following quarter.
In addition, retailers such as Metro Group have committed to participate in the EPC G2 task force to evaluate the technology as soon as it is available.
'RFID is already having a positive impact on our supply chain, and the new EPCglobal standard has the potential to enable us to further benefit from the technology', said Dr Gerd Wolfram, Managing Director, Metro Group.
'The global nature of the EPCglobal Class 1, Generation 2 specification gives us the potential to deploy RFID across our multinational supply chain, enabling us to benefit from increased efficiency, and to pass those benefits on to our customers and suppliers.
'Our approach has been aimed at bringing the benefits of the EPC G2 standard into the marketplace as early as possible.
Our Ucode EPC G2 is helping retailers and suppliers to be ahead of the game', said Jan-Willem Reynaerts, General Manager for RFID at Philips Semiconductors.
'We will continue to lead in developing RFID technology that helps companies to be effective worldwide, and are pleased to work with EPCglobal to ensure that our products comply with its standards'.
Ucode EPC G2 features a one-time programmable memory for the 96bit EPC, covers all mandatory commands and provides a selection of optional commands as specified in the EPCglobal Class 1 G2 standard.
The chip uses an anticollision algorithm that enables the reading of up to 1600 labels per second under current US regulations, and up to 600 labels per second under current European regulations.
Through a flexible implementation of the application field identifier (AFI), the IC will be able to support both EPCglobal and pending ISO18000-6c coding structures.
The Ucode EPC G2 chip is scheduled for mass production in Q3 2005.
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