Design of 13.56 MHz RFID Tag IC

The RFID tag IC has been presently abstracting great attention in the world because it can be one of the important sensor elements in the ubiquitous sense network in the future. The 125 kHz and 13.56 MHz RFID tag IC`s have already been developed and now widely used in the world and the UHF band tag IC is under development. Domestically, the development of the 125 kHz tag IC was reported before, but there has been no report about the development of the 13.56 MHz tag IC up to now. In this paper, the results of the design, fabrication and measurement of a 13.56 MHz tag IC are discussed. The digital and the analog circuits for the chip were designed and the chip was fabricated using 0.35 ㎛ standard CMOS technology and measured with a separately prepared reader. It was found from the measurement results that it operated properly within 8 cm range of the reader.