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‘Smallest’ Gen 2 RFID chip is 125 x 245μm
“As far as we can tell, it’s the world’s smallest Gen2-compatible RFID chip,” according to Paul Franzon, a professor of electrical engineering at North Carolina State University.
He was talking about a 125 x 245μm integrated circuit die presented at the IEEE International Conference on RFID.
It has -2 dBm sensitivity in the 860-960MHz band and its small size is put down to “a largely standard cell-based digital implementation using dual-phase RF-only logic approach, near-threshold voltage operation and the elimination of area intensive, complex, and less scalable rectifiers, storage capacitors, and power management units used in conventional RFID tags” according to the presentation.
RALEIGH - Researchers at North Carolina State University have made what is believed to be the smallest state-of-the-art RFID (radio-frequency identification)
Researchers at North Carolina State University have made what is believed to be the smallest state-of-the-art RFID chip, which should drive down the cost.