UCODE 7m Card, Labels or Tags

NXP’s UCODE 7 IC is the leading-edge EPC Gen2 RFID chip that offers best-in-class
performance and features for use in the most demanding RFID tagging applications.
Particularly well suited for inventory management application, like e.g Retail and Fashion,
with its leading edge RF performance for any given form factor, UCODE 7 enables long
read distance and fast inventory of dense RFID tag population. With its broadband design,
it offers the possibility to manufacture true global RFID label with best-in-class
performance over worldwide regulations.
The device also provides a pre-serialized 96-bit EPC and a Parallel encoding feature. For
applications where the same 58-bit Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) needs to be encoded on
multiple tags, at the same time, a combination of both features improves and simplifies the
tag initialization process.
On top, UCODE 7 offers a Tag Power Indicator for RFID tag initialization optimization and
a Product Status Flag for Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) application.

UCODE7 DATSHEET SL3S1204

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Description

1 Key features

  • Read sensitivity -21 dBm
  • Write sensitivity -16 dBm
  • Parallel encoding mode: 100 items in 60ms
  • Encoding speed: 16 bits per millisecond
  • Innovative functionalities
  • Tag Power Indicator
  • Automatic self pre-serialization for 96-bit EPC
  • Integrated Product Status Flag (PSF)
  • Compatible with single-slit antenna
  • Up to 128-bit EPC
  • 96-bit Unique Tag Identifier (TID) factory locked, including 48-bit unique serial number
  • 32-bit User Memory
  • EPC Gen2 v2.0 ready

1.1 Memory

  • 32-bit User Memory
  • Up to 128-bit of EPC memory
  • Supports self pre-serialization for 96-bit EPC
  • 96-bit Tag IDentifier (TID) factory locked
  • 48-bit unique serial number factory-encoded into TID
  • 32-bit access password
  • Wide operating temperature range: -40 °C up to +85 °C
  • Minimum 100.000 write cycle endurance

2 Key benefits

2.1 End user benefit

  • Long READ and WRITE ranges due to leading edge chip sensitivity
  • Very fast bulk encoding
  • Product identification through unalterable extended TID range, including a 48-bit serial number
  • Reliable operation in dense reader and noisy environments through high interference
    rejection

2.2 Antenna design benefits

  • High sensitivity enables smaller and cost efficient antenna designs for the same retail
    category
  • Tag Power Indicator features enables very high density of inlay on rolls without crosstalk
    issues during writing/encoding
  • The different input capacitance for the single slit antenna solution enables a finer
    tuning of the impedance for the antenna design

2.3 Label manufacturer benefit

  • Large RF pad-to-pad distance to ease antenna design
  • Symmetric RF inputs are less sensitive to process variation
  • Single slit antenna for a more mechanically stable antenna connection
  • Automatic self pre-serialization of the 96-bit EPC anytime its EPC serial number is erased
  • Extremely fast encoding of the EPC content

3 Supported features

  • All mandatory commands of EPC global specification V.1.2.0 are implemented
    including:
  • (Perma)LOCK
  • The following optional commands are implemented in conformance with the EPC
    specification:
  • Access
  • BlockWrite (2 words, 32-bit)
  • Product Status Flag bit: enables the UHF RFID tag to be used as EAS (Electronic Article Surveillance) tag without the need for a back-end data base.
  • Tag Power Indicator: enables the reader to select only ICs/tags that have enough power to be written to.
  • Parallel encoding: allows for the ability to bring (multiple) tag(s) quickly to the OPEN state and hence allowing single tags to be identified simply, without timing restrictions, or  multiple tags to be e.g. written to at the same time, considerably reducing the encoding process

AAll supported features of UCODE 7m can be activated using standard EPCglobal READ / WRITE / ACCESS / SELECT commands. No custom commands are needed to take advantage of  all the features in case of unlocked EPC memory. The parallel encoding feature may  however require a firmware upgrade of the reader to use its full potential.

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