Philips Semiconductors
Product Specification Rev. 3.2;December 2005
Highly Integrated ISO 14443A Reader IC
MF RC500
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1.1
GENERAL INFORMATION
Scope
This document describes the functionality of the MF RC500. It includes the functional and electrical
specifications and gives details on how to design-in this device from system and hardware viewpoint.
1.2
General Description
The MF RC500 is member of a new family of highly integrated reader ICs for contactless communication at
13.56 MHz. This new reader IC family utilises an outstanding modulation and demodulation concept
completely integrated for all kinds of passive contactless communication methods and protocols at
13.56 MHz. The MF RC500 is pin- compatible to the MF RC530, the MF RC531 and the SL RC 400.
The MF RC500 supports all layers of ISO14443A.
The internal transmitter part is able to drive an antenna designed for proximity operating distance (up to 100
mm) directly without additional active circuitry.
The receiver part provides a robust and efficient implementation of a demodulation and decoding circuitry for
signals from ISO14443A compatible transponders.
The digital part handles ISO14443A framing and error detection (Parity & CRC). Additionally it supports the
fast CRYPTO 1 security algorithm to authenticate MIFARE
®
Classic (e.g. MIFARE
®
Standard 1k and
MIFARE
®
Standard 4k) products.
A comfortable parallel interface which can be directly connected to any 8-bit µ-Processor gives high flexibility
for the reader/terminal design.
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