A high performance full NFC expansion board has been launched by Farnell element14. The EXPLORE-NFC is claimed to implement external user interfaces for industrial and consumer devices that meets NFC compliance with Reader mode, P2P mode and Card Emulation standards.
The board is available from Farnell element14 in Europe.
The board is claimed to be based on the PN512 NFC solution from NXP Semiconductors and features an integrated high performance antenna and is supported by an extensive software package (libnfc) while offering a flexible SPI interface. Applications for NFC include contactless payment, meter readings, loyalty cards and more.
Other features include:
• High performance full NFC compliant expansion board works with the Raspberry Pi
•Based on the NXP PN512 full NFC forum compliant NFC IC, meeting compliance with all 3 NFC modes (Reader, P2P and Card Emulation)
• Reader mode supports all 4 NFC tag types and NXP’s MIFARE command set
• Flexible interface selection (SPI or I²C), includes software stack for SPI Integrated high performance RF antenna
• Includes NXP’s MIFARE Ultralight NFC card (NFC forum tag type 2) for out of the box experience
• Software available on: http://www.element14.com/exploreNFC
David Shen, CTO at Premier Farnell, said: “The broad penetration of NFC smartphones has generated new use cases for a contactless reader infrastructure, enabling devices to communicate with NFC smartphones. New infrastructure applications comprise automation, home appliances, industrial, consumer, metering, computing, health care, automotive and gaming.
Developers will be interested able to implement solutions for NFC ecosystems or integrate an NFC interface into their device using the board.”
The board also easily interfaces with the Raspberry Pi. There is a broad Pi-community who will largely benefit from using the EXPLORE-NFC especially within the development of solutions in those new NFC infrastructure applications.
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