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A UHF RFID system with on-chip-antenna tag for short range communication

Qi Peng, Chun Zhang, Xijin Zhao and Zhihua Wang

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 Corresponding author: Qi Peng, E-mail: qipeng08@gmail.com

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Abstract: A UHF RF identification system based on the 0.18 μm CMOS process has been developed for short range and harsh size requirement applications, which is composed of a fully integrated tag and a special reader. The whole tag chip with the antenna takes up an area of 0.36 mm2, which is smaller than other reported tags with an on-chip antenna (OCA) using the standard CMOS process. A self-defined protocol is proposed to reduce the power consumption, and minimize the size of the tag. The specialized SOC reader system consists of the RF transceiver, digital baseband, MCU and host interface. Its power consumption is about 500 mW. Measurement results show that the system's reading range is 2 mm with 20 dBm reader output power. With an inductive antenna printed on a paper substrate around the OCA tag, the reading range can be extended from several centimeters to meters, depending on the shape and size of the inductive antenna.

Key words: fully-integrated tagson-chip antennareaderRFID



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Fig. 1.  (a) Block diagram of the system. (b) Self-defined protocol for the short range communication system.

Fig. 2.  (a) Cross-sectional view of the on-chip antenna. (b) Model of the tag.

Fig. 3.  (a) Block diagram of the tag. (b) Wafer-level test for the OCA tag.

Fig. 4.  Block diagram of the reader.

Fig. 5.  Schematic of the power amplifier.

Fig. 6.  Schematics of the down-mixer, HPF1 and baseband LNA.

Fig. 7.  (a) Digital baseband. (b) Decoding module.

Fig. 8.  Micrographs of the (a) tag and (b) reader.

Fig. 9.  Measured carrier phase-noise at 900 MHz.

Fig. 10.  (a) Test system of the proposed reader and OCA tag. Communication between the reader and (b) OCA tag and (c) a commercial ISO 18000-6C tag.

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Table 1.   RFID reader performance comparison.

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Table 2.   Tag with OCA performance comparison.

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    Received: 09 October 2014 Revised: Online: Published: 01 May 2015

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      Qi Peng, Chun Zhang, Xijin Zhao, Zhihua Wang. A UHF RFID system with on-chip-antenna tag for short range communication[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2015, 36(5): 055008. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/36/5/055008 Q Peng, C Zhang, X J Zhao, Z H Wang. A UHF RFID system with on-chip-antenna tag for short range communication[J]. J. Semicond., 2015, 36(5): 055008. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/36/5/055008.Export: BibTex EndNote
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      Qi Peng, Chun Zhang, Xijin Zhao, Zhihua Wang. A UHF RFID system with on-chip-antenna tag for short range communication[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2015, 36(5): 055008. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/36/5/055008

      Q Peng, C Zhang, X J Zhao, Z H Wang. A UHF RFID system with on-chip-antenna tag for short range communication[J]. J. Semicond., 2015, 36(5): 055008. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/36/5/055008.
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      A UHF RFID system with on-chip-antenna tag for short range communication

      doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/36/5/055008
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      • Corresponding author: E-mail: qipeng08@gmail.com
      • Received Date: 2014-10-09
      • Accepted Date: 2014-11-07
      • Published Date: 2015-01-25

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