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NXP Semiconductors

AN11480

Quick Start Up Guide for EXPLORE NFC working with Raspberry Pi

AN11480

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using H.264 at 40MBits/s. It has a fast 3D core accessed using the supplied OpenGL

ES2.0 and OpenVG libraries. In addition, the Model B has 512MB RAM included in its

SoC.

To get started quickly, the Rapberry Pi Foundation provides several preconfigured Linux

distributions.

For the project described in this guide we are using the “Raspbian wheezy [7.].

For more information about the Raspberry Pi please visit [9.].

1.3 NXP Reader Library and Linux

The projects described in this guide are based on the NXP Reader Library [8.]. The NXP

Reader Library is written in C language enabling the customers to create their own

software stack for their contactless reader.

To get the NXP Reader Library to work on Linux, some of the relevant parts have been

ported to Linux. At the moment, only the SPI protocol is ported for the communication

between reader IC and the Raspberry Pi.

The intention of this project is to give an exemplary implementation of the NXP Reader

Library on Linux. It should easily be possible to apply/install the Reader Library of this

project on other Linux systems.