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 Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC, 2017

March, 2018 

 Rev. 1

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Publication Order Number:

AND9670/D

AND9670/D

IoT Development Kit (IDK)
IDKSmar tPassiveSensor_
RFID Shield

Quick Start Guide: Bring Up Test of

SPS_RFID Shield

INTRODUCTION

This document describes how to use the RFID shield on the IDK 

Baseboard and shows the good reading range performance of the 
RFID shield with the attached helical whip antenna

Software and Hardware Preparation

Software Requirement:

Windows PC with minimum 1 USB port, installed Java JRE/JDK 

v.8u101 or higher, Operation system Windows 7, 8 or 10, mini USB 
cable, Installed IDK IDE v3.6.5 or higher

Hardware Requirement:

IDK Baseboard with Power connection cable (IoT Baseboard to the

RFID shield)

DC Power Supply Adapter, Recommended SMI24

12

V

P6

RFID shield kit is provided with:

RFID Shield

1

/

4

 Wave Whip Antenna for ETSI 866MHz

Header 1x 10; 2x 8;1x

Smart Passive Sensor

 (SPS) Tag Samples

Figure 1. RFID Shield Mounted on the IDK Baseboard

RESET button

Summary of Contents for AND9670/D

Page 1: ...th the attached helical whip antenna Software and Hardware Preparation Software Requirement Windows PC with minimum 1 USB port installed Java JRE JDK v 8u101 or higher Operation system Windows 7 8 or...

Page 2: ...tunning Chameleon engine which optimizes the detunned antenna condition by internal variable capacitance The sensor IC has the ability to measure the amount of RF power received referred to as On Chip...

Page 3: ...getRfidFreqBandName const FreqBandEnum band switch band case FCC return FCC case ETSI return ETSI case PRC return PRC case JAPAN return JAPAN case FCC_center return FCC_center case ETSI_center return...

Page 4: ...ndex and left click on Rebuild It disappears after few seconds Figure 3 IDE Go to Device Manager and identify the USB Port number In this example COM3 was recognized and the value in file config cfg w...

Page 5: ...the console window below Figure 6 Now you can start to run the RFID application in the console window by adding a sample tag near the antenna and pressing the RESET button on the IDK Baseboard The exa...

Page 6: ...ange areas based on the evaluation results in an ordinary environment The IDK RFID shield kit is provided with the helical whip antenna 3 with the omni directional radiation pattern characteristics Th...

Page 7: ...ount the whip antenna vertically on the RFID shield an additional right angle adaptor 4 has been used as shown in picture below Figure 9 Whip Antenna in Vertical Mounting Position To get flexible ante...

Page 8: ...ntenna to the tag at reference position is 7 cm At the reference position the RSSI is about 30 The tag is moved to the different position on the same place to characterize the tag reading area In this...

Page 9: ...second reading area in red the tag is in the vertical position as the mounted whip antenna In this setup the max reading distance of the tag is about 60 cm in x axis direction The blue reading area s...

Page 10: ...small sized and cheap whip antenna 3 a decent reading performance can be achieved if the position and orientation for both antenna and tag are selected carefully AUTOPOWER AND TX ATTENUATOR After succ...

Page 11: ...uild the project AS3993_RFID again Now you can modify the parameter like TX attenuation and Autopower on off in the myAS3993_RFID library By default the TX attenuation is set to 6 and Autopower off To...

Page 12: ...Measurement Keithly DC Power Supply to Baseboard RFID Tags 2x Temperature Tag SPS2T001B 1x Moisture Tag SPS1M002B RFID Operation Frequency ETSI 860 880 MHz Table 2 Measurement Condition Max RF Output...

Page 13: ...dated for each customer application by customer s technical experts ON Semiconductor does not convey any license under its patent rights nor the rights of others ON Semiconductor products are not desi...

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