An analysis for an ISO 11784/5 compliant mixed-signal ASIC, for animal RFID readers’ frontends [preprint]

In this work a custom integrated circuit is presented, aimed at implementing a low-cost and high-performance RFID reader for the cattle industry. It was designed to be fully compliant with the ISO 11784/5 standard for animal ID @134.2kHz. Firstly, the reader-tag link was characterized and an adequat...

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Main Author: Barbieri, Lucio (author)
Other Authors: Miguez de Mori, Matías Rafael (author), Gak Szollosy, Joel (author), Pinheiro Camacho, Santiago (author), Calarco, Nicolás (author), González, Ismael (author), Arnaud Maceira, Alfredo (author)
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Language:English
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10895/4750
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Summary:In this work a custom integrated circuit is presented, aimed at implementing a low-cost and high-performance RFID reader for the cattle industry. It was designed to be fully compliant with the ISO 11784/5 standard for animal ID @134.2kHz. Firstly, the reader-tag link was characterized and an adequate system topology was proposed. Then, an initial version of the analog RFID front-end was implemented using discrete electronic components, and tested. Using these measurement results, an AD conversion stage, and subsequent digital filters, were optimized in a second, mixed-signal version, of the RFID reader engine to be implemented in an ASIC. The complete reader circuit was designed in a 0.18 µm CMOS-HV technology including an analog front-end and programmable digital IIR filters, that can be adapted for both HDX and FDX ISO RFID tags. The resulting circuit occupies an area of less than 1.0mm².