User's Manual

TABLE 5-6: INDY RS500 – RF TRANSMITTER SPECIFICATIONS ........................................................................ 10

TABLE 5-7: INDY RS500 – DIGITAL INTERFACE SPECIFICATION ........................................................................ 11

TABLE 5-8: INDY RS500 – ANALOG INTERFACE SPECIFICATION ....................................................................... 12

TABLE 5-9: INDY RS500 – REGIONAL SUPPORT.............................................................................................. 13

TABLE 5-10: INDY RS500 – LINK PROFILE ...................................................................................................... 15

TABLE 5-11: INDY RS500 – GEN 2 FUNCTIONALITY ........................................................................................ 15

TABLE 5-12: INDY RS500 – INVENTORY PERFORMANCE ................................................................................. 16

TABLE 8-1: RS500 SERIAL # MAKEUP ............................................................................................................ 19

TABLE 9-1: DOCUMENT CHANGE LOG ............................................................................................................. 25

2 Introduction

The Indy® RS500 reader SiP (system-in-package) is a completely integrated reader

solution for EPC Gen 2 / ISO18000-63 (formerly 18000-6C) applications. The Indy

RS500 was developed to make embedding UHF RFID reader capability easy. The Indy

RS500 builds on market-leading Indy reader chip technology and integrates all of the

necessary components into a small package. The Indy RS500 requires no external

components, is fully tested and meets regulatory requirements. The Indy RS500 comes

in a surface mount package designed to work as a SMT (surface mount technology)

compatible component in a standard PCB manufacturing process, which eliminates

costly mechanical hardware, RF cables and human assembly that are typically required

with embedded readers on the market today. The Indy RS500 is a turnkey solution that

will enable quick and easy embedding of RFID with low development risk and fast time-

to-market.

Ideal for moderate read range of small tag populations, the Indy RS500’s small form

factor enables a diverse range of applications that need a low-cost embedded UHF

Gen 2 RFID reader capability, such as consumables authentication, access control,

process control, appliances, POS devices for retail, medical equipment, printers, and

low-duty handheld readers. The RS500 is capable of reading dozens of tags per second

at distances greater than 3 meters when using a 6 dBi reader antenna and far field

passive tags.

This document includes interface, functional, performance, mechanical and

environmental specifications. Host communication specifications (e.g. firmware upgrade

and host interface protocol) and Impinj Radio Interface (IRI) documentation is provided

in the latest RS500 Software release package. The Indy RS500 uses the IRI™ (Impinj

Radio Interface) to communicate with host systems. The IRI Tool Kit enables

developers to build on a variety of embedded host platforms by providing the following:

documentation, image loader, IRI library, sample C code and project files. The IRI Tool

Kit can be found in the latest Indy RS500 Software release package and can be

downloaded from the restricted documents and downloads section at

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