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A.1UIDFormat
A.2TagMemoryOrganization
AppendixA
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Thetagsareuniquelyidentifiedbya64-bituniqueidentifier(UID).Thisisusedforaddressingeachtag
uniquelyandindividuallyduringtheanticollisionloop,andforone-to-oneexchangebetweenareaderand
atag.
TheformatoftheUIDisshownbelow:
Bits64to57Bits56to49Bits48to1
E0ManufacturercodeICserialnumber
TheUIDiscomposedof:
The8MSBs,whichareE0.
The8-bitICmanufacturercode
Auniqueserialnumberof48bitsassignedbytheICmanufacturer
Tagmemoryisorganizedintoblocksofbytes.Addressingisbyblockonly.Thereisnoindividualbyte
addressingforreadorwrite;thewholeblockisaccessed.Itisanalogoustoaspreadsheetwithrowsand
columns,whereaddressingaccessesawholerowatonce.
Theformatoftagmemoryisshownasfollows:
Bits16to14Bits13to9Bits8to1
RFUBlocksizeinbytesNumberofblocks
Blocksizeisexpressedin5bits,allowingupto32bytes,i.e.,256bits.Itisonelessthantheactual
numberofbytes.E.g.,avalueof1Findicates32bytes;avalueof00indicates1byte.
Numberofblocksisdefinedin8bits,allowingupto256blocks.Itisonelessthantheactualnumber
ofblocks.E.g.,avalueofFFindicates256blocks;avalueof00indicates1block.
The3most-significantbitsarereservedforfutureuseandaresettozero.
Information:
Thisaddressingschemelimitsthetotalstorageofthetagto8Kbytes.
Note:
ThesoftwareGUIthatyouusemaybestoringdatainASCII,ratherthanhexadecimal.Thiscutsthestorage
capacityofthetaginhalf,because8bitsarerequiredforeachASCIIcharacterinsteadof4withhexadecimal.It
mayrequireadatastreamcaptureinstrumenttodifferentiate.
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