ASIC Design Of An RFID Smart Label IC

An RFID Smart Lable IC is designed in this paper. It can be used in supply chain, door lock and figure identify. The design is finished according to ISO/IEC15693. The IC can be writed or read within 1.5m. There is a 2K EEPROM in it. The Lable IC has low cost. The market demand of this kind of Lable IC is large and the application environment has matured. RFID Smart Label is a kind of contactless integrated circuit cards. It is a combination of Radio Frequency technique and integrated circuit card technique. RFID Smart Label uses radio to exchange data. RFID Smart Label comprises an integrated circuit and an antenna. It can be used to store information of goods. The design of the RFID Smart Label IC is finished on the basis of detailed research on the communication protocol between reader and RFID Smart Label. The design of the Label system is semi-customed. The design is accomplished using Top-down design flow and standard cell library method. At first, detailed specifications of the function and interface are made. The IC is divided to many function modules. Then these modules are realized by using VerilogHDL according to the specifications. After finishing the codes, testbenchs for every module are written and the functions are simulated in Modelsim SE 5.7. At last the design is inputed to Synopsys Design Compiler to accomplish synthesis. In this process the object library and constraints are designated. While simulating the design we get correct result. It means the design we finished can perform functions and timings correctly. The result of synthesis is satisfactory. These assure the high performance of the IC and the accomplishment of back-end design.