General description

NTAG213, NTAG215 and NTAG216 have been developed by NXP Semiconductors as standard NFC tag ICs to be used in mass market applications such as retail, gaming and consumer electronics, in combination with NFC devices or NFC compliant Proximity Coupling Devices. NTAG213, NTAG215 and NTAG216 (from now on, generally called NTAG21x) are designed to fully comply to NFC Forum Type 2 Tag and ISO/IEC14443 Type A specifications.

Applications

• Smart advertisement

• Goods and device authentication

• Call request

• SMS

• Call to action

• Voucher and coupons

• Bluetooth or Wi-Fi pairing

• Connection handover

• Product authentication

• Mobile companion tags

• Electronic shelf labels

• Business cards

Customizations

• Printing: off-set print, silk-screen print, digital print 

• Code printing: thermal print, inkjet spray print, DOD UV print, embossing print, laser print, etc.

• Magnetic stripe: LoCo 300 Oe, HiCo 2750 Oe or 4000 Oe

• Special crafts: Hot-stamping, Hole punching, Signature panel, Scratching off, Hologram, Crystal epoxy surface, metal ring, etc.

• Coding: Encoding, Encryption, etc.

Features and benefits

• Contactless transmission of data and supply energy

• Operating frequency of 13.56 MHz

• Data transfer of 106 kbit/s

• Data integrity of 16-bit CRC, parity, bit coding, bit counting

• Operating distance up to 100 mm (depending on various parameters as e.g. field strength and antenna geometry)

• 7-byte serial number (cascade level 2 according to ISO/IEC 14443-3)

• UID ASCII mirror for automatic serialization of NDEF messages

• Automatic NFC counter triggered at read command

• NFC counter ASCII mirror for automatic adding the NFC counter value to the NDEF message

• ECC based originality signature

• Fast read command

• True anticollision

• 50 pF input capacitance

EEPROM

• 180, 540 or 924 bytes organized in 45, 135 or 231 pages with 4 bytes per page

• 144, 504 or 888 bytes freely available user Read/Write area (36, 126 or 222 pages)

• 4 bytes initialized capability container with one time programmable access bits

• Field programmable read-only locking function per page for the first 16 pages

• Field programmable read-only locking function above the first 16 pages per double page for NTAG213 or per 16 pages for NTAG215 and NTAG216

• Configurable password protection with optional limit of unsuccessful attempts

• Anti-tearing support for capability container (CC) and lock bits

• ECC supported originality check

• Data retention time of 10 years

• Write endurance 100.000 cycles

Security

• Manufacturer programmed 7-byte UID for each device

• Pre-programmed Capability container with one time programmable bits

• Field programmable read-only locking function

• ECC based originality signature

• 32-bit password protection to prevent unauthorized memory operations

Chip Parameters 

Card Parameters