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Design of a Low-Power and Low-Area EEPROM IP of 256 Bits for an UHF RFID Tag Chip (UHF RFID 태그 칩용 저전력, 저면적 256b EEPROM IP 설계)

  • Kang, Min-Cheol;Lee, Jae-Hyung;Kim, Tae-Hoon;Jang, Ji-Hye;Ha, Pan-Bong;Kim, Young-Hee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.671-674
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    • 2009
  • We design a low-power and low-area asynchronous EEPROM of 256 bits used in a passive UHF RFID tag chip. For a low-power solution, we use a supply voltage of 1.8V and design a Dickson charge pump using N-type Schottky diodes with a low-voltage characteristic. And we use an asynchronous interface and a separate I/O method for a low-area solution of the peripheral circuit of the designed EEPROM. And we design a Dickson charge pump using N-type Schottky diodes to reduce an area of DC-DC converter. The layout area of the designed EEPROM of 256 bits with an array of 16 rows and 16 columns using $0.18{\mu}m$ EEPROM process is $311.66{\times}490.59{\mu}m^2$.

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A UHF-band Passive Temperature Sensor Tag Chip Fabricated in $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS Process ($0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정으로 제작된 UHF 대역 수동형 온도 센서 태그 칩)

  • Pham, Duy-Dong;Hwang, Sang-Kyun;Chung, Jin-Yong;Lee, Jong-Wook
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.45 no.10
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    • pp.45-52
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    • 2008
  • We investigated the design of an RF-powered, wireless temperature sensor tag chip using $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. The transponder generates its own power supply from small incident RF signal using Schottky diodes in voltage multiplier. Ambient temperature is measured using a new low-power temperature-to-voltage converter, and an 8-bit single-slope ADC converts the measured voltage to digital data. ASK demodulator and digital control are combined to identify unique transponder (ID) sent by base station for multi-transponder applications. The measurement of the temperature sensor tag chip showed a resolution of $0.64^{\circ}C/LSB$ in the range from $20^{\circ}C$ to $100^{\circ}C$, which is suitable for environmental temperature monitoring. The chip size is $1.1{\times}0.34mm^2$, and operates at clock frequency of 100 kHz while consuming $64{\mu}W$ power. The temperature sensor required a -11 dBm RF input power, supported a conversion rate of 12.5 k-samples/sec, and a maximum error of $0.5^{\circ}C$.

Adaptive RFID anti-collision scheme using collision information and m-bit identification (충돌 정보와 m-bit인식을 이용한 적응형 RFID 충돌 방지 기법)

  • Lee, Je-Yul;Shin, Jongmin;Yang, Dongmin
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2013
  • RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) system is non-contact identification technology. A basic RFID system consists of a reader, and a set of tags. RFID tags can be divided into active and passive tags. Active tags with power source allows their own operation execution and passive tags are small and low-cost. So passive tags are more suitable for distribution industry than active tags. A reader processes the information receiving from tags. RFID system achieves a fast identification of multiple tags using radio frequency. RFID systems has been applied into a variety of fields such as distribution, logistics, transportation, inventory management, access control, finance and etc. To encourage the introduction of RFID systems, several problems (price, size, power consumption, security) should be resolved. In this paper, we proposed an algorithm to significantly alleviate the collision problem caused by simultaneous responses of multiple tags. In the RFID systems, in anti-collision schemes, there are three methods: probabilistic, deterministic, and hybrid. In this paper, we introduce ALOHA-based protocol as a probabilistic method, and Tree-based protocol as a deterministic one. In Aloha-based protocols, time is divided into multiple slots. Tags randomly select their own IDs and transmit it. But Aloha-based protocol cannot guarantee that all tags are identified because they are probabilistic methods. In contrast, Tree-based protocols guarantee that a reader identifies all tags within the transmission range of the reader. In Tree-based protocols, a reader sends a query, and tags respond it with their own IDs. When a reader sends a query and two or more tags respond, a collision occurs. Then the reader makes and sends a new query. Frequent collisions make the identification performance degrade. Therefore, to identify tags quickly, it is necessary to reduce collisions efficiently. Each RFID tag has an ID of 96bit EPC(Electronic Product Code). The tags in a company or manufacturer have similar tag IDs with the same prefix. Unnecessary collisions occur while identifying multiple tags using Query Tree protocol. It results in growth of query-responses and idle time, which the identification time significantly increases. To solve this problem, Collision Tree protocol and M-ary Query Tree protocol have been proposed. However, in Collision Tree protocol and Query Tree protocol, only one bit is identified during one query-response. And, when similar tag IDs exist, M-ary Query Tree Protocol generates unnecessary query-responses. In this paper, we propose Adaptive M-ary Query Tree protocol that improves the identification performance using m-bit recognition, collision information of tag IDs, and prediction technique. We compare our proposed scheme with other Tree-based protocols under the same conditions. We show that our proposed scheme outperforms others in terms of identification time and identification efficiency.

Modeling and Simulation of New Encoding Schemes for High-Speed UHF RFID Communication

  • Mo, Sang-Hyun;Bae, Ji-Hoon;Park, Chan-Won;Bang, Hyo-Chan;Park, Hyung Chul
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.241-250
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we present novel high-speed transmission schemes for high-speed ultra-high frequency (UHF) radio-frequency identification communication. For high-speed communication, tags communicate with a reader using a high-speed Miller (HS-Miller) encoding and multiple antennas, and a reader communicates with tags using extended pulse-interval encoding (E-PIE). E-PIE can provide up to a two-fold faster data rate than conventional pulse-interval encoding. Using HS-Miller encoding and orthogonal multiplexing techniques, tags can achieve a two- to three-fold faster data rate than Miller encoding without degrading the demodulation performance at a reader. To verify the proposed transmission scheme, the MATLAB/Simulink model for high-speed backscatter based on an HS-Miller modulated subcarrier has been designed and simulated. The simulation results show that the proposed transmission scheme can achieve more than a 3 dB higher BER performance in comparison to a Miller modulated subcarrier.

RFID Smart Floor for Mobile Robot (이동로봇을 위한 RFID Smart Floor)

  • Kang, Soo-Hyeok;Kim, Yong-Ho;Moon, Byoung-Joon;Kim, Dong-Han
    • 전자공학회논문지 IE
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    • v.48 no.4
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    • pp.30-39
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    • 2011
  • This paper proposed a new concept of information space called Smart Floor. Smart Floor is an intelligent space where a mobile robot can read and write specific information through Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) tags which are mounted on Smart Floor to drive its goal position. RFID tag packaging technology is described for building Smart Floor. Also a mobile robot equipped passive RFID System with ultra high frequency (UHF) bandwidth has developed. The information that consists of an absolute position in the Smart Floor and desired direction saved on RFID tags is a simulated Q-value based on Q-learning algorithm. Proposed Smart Floor will be a proper method to communicate between space and robot.

A Study on the Localization using Passive RFID and Sonar for Mobile Robot In Indoor environment (실내 환경에서 RFID와 초음파를 이용한 이동로봇의 위치 추정에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Ki-Ho;Jang, Chul-Woong;Kang, Shin-Hyuk;Lee, Dong-Kwang;Yeon, Mun-Jin;Jang, Mun-Suck;Kong, Jung-Shik;Kwon, Oh-Sang;Lee, Eung-Hyeok
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2007.10a
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    • pp.331-332
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    • 2007
  • In this paper we analyze whether recent Radio Frequence Identification technology can be used to improve the localization of mobile robot in their environment. This system make use of power control because Tag with Reader distance measurement. We are accurately the low at former time than the environment. A distance measurement is rather correct. This system used 900MHz Frequencies.

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Hash Function-based Secure Authentication Protocol for Improving Efficiency in RFID System (효율성을 고려한 해시 함수 기반의 안전한 RFID 인증 프로토콜)

  • Kim, Ik-Su
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.34 no.4B
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    • pp.428-434
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    • 2009
  • Many RFID authentication protocols have been proposed to build a secure ubiquitous environment. However, existing protocols do not respond recent attacks appropriately and they perform many hash operations to authenticate a large number of tags. In this paper, we propose a hash function-based secure authentication protocol for improving efficiency in RFID system. The proposed protocol is safe to passive attacks and active attacks, and requires only 2 hash operations in a tag and 3 hash operations in a database. Accordingly, the proposed protocol is very effective in RFID system environment which is composed to low-cost tags and a database handling many tags.

Improved Authentication and Data Protection Protocol of Passive RFID Security Tag and Reader (개선된 수동형 RFID 보안태그와 리더의 인증 및 데이터 보호 프로토콜)

  • Yang, Yeon-Hyun;Kim, Sun-Young;Lee, Pil-Joong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.85-94
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    • 2010
  • As an automatic identification technology, in which electronic tags are attached to items and system auto-identifies informations of the items using wireless communication technology, use of RFID system is increasing in various fields. According to that, related security problems are becoming important issue. Up to now, many authentication protocols have been proposed to solve security problem of RFID system. In this paper, We show that the RFID authentication protocols in [9, 10], which are compatible with Type C RFID system in ISO 18000-6 Amd1[8], are vulnerable to a spoofing attack. In addition, we propose improved protocols having small additional cost over the original protocols.

A Low-power EEPROM design for UHF RFID tag chip (UHF RFID 태그 칩용 저전력 EEPROM설계)

  • Yi, Won-Jae;Lee, Jae-Hyung;Park, Kyung-Hwan;Lee, Jung-Hwan;Lim, Gyu-Ho;Kang, Hyung-Geun;Ko, Bong-Jin;Park, Mu-Hun;Ha, Pan-Bong;Kim, Young-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.486-495
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, a low-power 1Kb synchronous EEPROM is designed with flash cells for passive UHF RFID tag chips. To make a low-power EEPROM, four techniques are newly proposed. Firstly, dual power supply voltages VDD(1.5V) and VDDP(2.5V), are used. Secondly, CKE signal is used to remove switching current due to clocking of synchronous circuits. Thirdly, a low-speed but low-power sensing scheme using clocked inverters is used instead of the conventional current sensing method. Lastly, the low-voltage, VDD for the reference voltage generator is supplied by using the Voltage-up converter in write cycle. An EEPROM is fabricated with the $0.25{\mu}m$ EEPROM process. Simulation results show that power dissipations are $4.25{\mu}W$ in the read cycle and $25{\mu}W$ in the write cycle, respectively. The layout area is $646.3\times657.68{\mu}m^2$.

A design on low-power and small-area EEPROM for UHF RFID tag chips (UHF RFID 태그 칩용 저전력, 저면적 비동기식 EEPROM 설계)

  • Baek, Seung-Myun;Lee, Jae-Hyung;Song, Sung-Young;Kim, Jong-Hee;Park, Mu-Hun;Ha, Pan-Bong;Kim, Young-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.11 no.12
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    • pp.2366-2373
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, a low-power and small-area asynchronous 1 kilobit EEPROM for passive UHF RFID tag chips is designed with $0.18{\mu}m$ EEPROM cells. As small area solutions, command and address buffers are removed since we design asynchronous I/O interface and data output buffer is also removed by using separate I/O. To supply stably high voltages VPP and VPPL used in the cell array from low voltage VDD, Dickson charge pump is designed with schottky diodes instead of a PN junction diodes. On that account, we can decrease the number of stages of the charge pump, which can decrease layout area of charge pump. As a low-power solution, we can reduce write current by using the proposed VPPL power switching circuit which selects each needed voltage at either program or write mode. A test chip of asynchronous 1 kilobit EEPROM is fabricated, and its layout area is $554.8{\times}306.9{\mu}m2$., 11% smaller than its synchronous counterpart.