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M10936
P
N7150 User Manual
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T
he PN7150 architecture overview
T
he PN7150 is an NFC Controller, which is briefly described in Fig 1:
The top part describes the Device Host (DH) architecture with Higher Layer Driver
(e.g. Android stack) hosting the different kind of applications (Reader/Writer, Peer
to Peer, Card Emulation in the DH-NFCEE), the NCI driver & the transport layer
driver.
The PN7150 is the NFCC in the Fig 1. It is connected to the DH through a physical
interface which is an I2C.
The bottom part of the figure contains the RF antenna connected to the PN71
5
0,
which can communicate over RF with a Tag (Card) and a Reader/Writer or a Peer
device.
Antenna
DH
NFCC
NCI driver
RF
Card
Emulat°
Transport
Layer FW
NCI
firmware
Transport layer
driver
TAG
or
Card
Reader/Writer
or
P2P
Reader
/ Writer
P2P
DH-NFCEE
I²C host interface
Fig 1. PN7150 system architecture