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Product data sheet
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Rev. 3.6 — 28 November 2017
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NXP Semiconductors
PN532/C1
Near Field Communication (NFC) controller
8.6.13 NFC-WI/S
2
C interface support
The NFC-WI/S
2
C provides the possibility to directly connect a secure IC to the PN532 in
order to act as a contactless smart card IC via the PN532. The interfacing signals can be
routed to the pins SIGIN and SIGOUT. SIGIN can receive either a digital FeliCa or digital
ISO/IEC 14443A signal sent by the secure IC. The SIGOUT pin can provide a digital
signal and a clock to communicate to the secure IC. A secure IC can be a smart card IC
provided by NXP Semiconductors.
The PN532 generates the supply SVDD to the secure IC. The pins SIGIN and SIGOUT
are referred to this supply, as well as pin P34 / SIC_CLK, which can be used as an extra
pin for the connection to a secure IC.
The following figure outlines the supported communication flows via the PN532 to the
secure core IC.
Configured in the Wired Card mode the host controller can directly communicate to the
secure IC via SIGIN/SIGOUT. In this mode the PN532 generates the RF clock and
performs the communication on the SIGOUT line. To enable the Wired Card mode the
clock has to be derived by the internal oscillator of the PN532 (see bits sic_clock_sel in
Table 265 on page 181
.)
Configured in Card emulation mode the secure IC can act as contactless smart card IC
via the PN532. In this mode the signal on the SIGOUT line is provided by the RF field of
the external Reader/Writer. To enable the Virtual Card mode the clock derived by the
external RF field has to be used.
The configuration of the NFC-WI/S
2
C interface differs for the FeliCa and MIFARE scheme
as outlined in the following chapters.
Fig 41. Communication flows supported by the NFC-WI interface
80C51
Host
Host Interfaces
FIFO and state machine
Serial Data Switch
secure IC
P34
SIGOUT
SIGIN
1. Wired Card mode
2. Card emulation mode
PN532
Analog + CL UART
CIU
(Virtual Card mode)