ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an extensible Radio frequency identification device (RFID) tag system. RFID systems are expanding rapidly with their applications in a wide range of areas. RFID systems consist of RF tags and RF readers or interrogators. The chapter provides some background on research and related work pertaining to RFID. It examines the physical layer design automation flow with examples of encodings used in active, passive, and near-field communication standards. The chapter describes the controller design automation flow with examples demonstrated for various RFID standards such as ISO 18000 Part 7 and Part 6C. One of the main components of an RFID system communication is the physical layer protocol employed to encode bits of information. The physical layer features for the bit encoding mechanism vary across various RFID standards. The user describes the features of the encoding scheme using a textual representation. This representation is created from a physical layer specification such as an RFID standard.
