NFC IP now available for licensing
30 August 2010
Innovision Research and Technology has made the second version of its GEM NFC (Near Field Communication) semiconductor technology available for licensing.
This opens up the market for any semiconductor company to integrate NFC into chipsets for mobile phones and other consumer devices.
The company’s VP of Marketing, Stephen Graham (pictured), says: “Innovision is the only company to have developed a 1.8 V NFC solution, and this is now accelerating the creation of high-performance SoCs that fully integrate NFC with other complementary wireless technologies. We have several major global semiconductor companies who are already integrating GEM 2 into their SoCs.
This is a very strong indication of the pace at which the market for NFC is developing, so with this launch our aim is to open up the market to any semiconductor company, regardless of size and scale, that wants to develop low-voltage, low-cost stand-alone NFC controllers, or integrate NFC into SoCs for mobile phones, PCs and consumer devices.”
The first version of GEM IP operated at 3.3 V and was suitable for 130 nm and 90 nm processes; GEM 2 operates at 1.8 V and is also suitable for 65 nm and 40 nm processes. In essence, GEM 2 is a semiconductor IP product offering IC designers a versatile solution for NFC Reader/Writer, Peer-to-Peer and Card/Tag emulation functionality. It enables high-performance NFC devices and global NFC interoperability with existing and emerging standards for contactless payment, mass transit ticketing, access control and smart objects, including ISO/IEC 18092, 21481, 14443A&B, and 15693. GEM 2 even supports a battery-off mode in which the NFC solution may be powered from the RF field even when the battery in the mobile phone is fully depleted; and it supports standard secure element interfaces including the Single Wire Protocol (SWP) defined by ETSI for interfacing to the SIM card in a mobile phone.
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