Electronics Weekly
Branded ‘NFC Connect’ it is a passive IC powered and read using near-field communications, conforming “with ISO15693 and NFC Forum Type 5 industry standards, and is easily integrated into existing workflows, providing inlay, assembly and converter partners with an opportunity to expand their product portfolios,” claimed Pragmatic sales v-p James Davey. “It offers NFC-enabled iOS and Android smartphone compatibility [and] can be assembled onto single-sided NFC RFID antennas”.
The first product, PR1301, is available frame-mounted on 300mm wafers, as singulated dies and on sample inlays.
Minimum bend radius for the flexible ICs is 5mm.
Regarding security, the company said that the unique pre-encoded identification number can not be re-written.
NFC Connect is manufactured at Pragmatic Park in County Durham UK.
Last September, the company revealed a proof-of-concept 32bit 60kHz 6mW RISC-V processor made by depositing IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) thin-film transistors onto a flexible polyimide substrate.
