A Mixed Circuit and System Level Simulation Technique of Collision-Resistant RFID System

Yohei FUKUMIZU
Naoki GOCHI
Makoto NAGATA
Kazuo TAKI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E90-C    No.6    pp.1299-1303
Publication Date: 2007/06/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1353
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e90-c.6.1299
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Analog Circuits and Related SoC Integration Technologies)
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Keyword: 
RFID,  anti-collision,  TH-CDMA,  integrated multi-level simulation environment,  behavioral modeling,  Verilog-AMS,  

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Summary: 
An integrated multi-level simulation environment is developed for a highly collision-resistant RFID system. An analog/mixed-signal (AMS) simulator for a circuit-level description of analog front-end power/signal transmission through electro-magnetic coupling is concurrently connected to a tailored software simulator for system-level description of digital back-end processing of TH-CDMA based anti-collision communication. The feasibility of the RFID system in which more than 1,000 transponders can be identified by a single reader in 400 msec is successfuly explored, under a practical presence of field disturbances such as background noises in communication channels as well as variations of electro-magnetic coupling strengths for power transmission.