PN532 NFC module V3, NFC with Android phone extension of RFID provide Schematic and library

Overview

NFC is a popular technology in recent years. We often heard this work while smart phone company introduces their latest high-end phones. Almost all the high-end phone in the market support NFC.

Near field communication (NFC) is a set of standards for smart phones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into close proximity, usually no more than a few centimeters.

For electronics geeks, we also want to use NFC technology to make our own things. So we build this NFC RFID module. This module is built around PN532. PN532 is very popular in NFC area. And the company offers much technology document to help developers. We developed this module based on the official document. And to make things easier, we also build library for this module.

We almost break out all the IO pins of PN532 on this module. Users could easily connect and play. With our Arduino Sensor Shield, it is very easy to plug and play. However, if users want to use other interface such as UART or SPI, this module also makes it easy to connect those pins.

Feature

1. Small dimension and easy to embed into your project

2. Support I2C, SPI and HSU (High Speed UART), easy to change between those modes

3. Support RFID reading and writing, P2P communication with peers, NFC with Android phone

4. RFID reader/writer supports:

   • MF1k, 4k, Ultra light, and Des*** cards

   • ISO/IEC 14443-4 cards such as CD97BX, CD light, Des***, P5CN072 (SMX)

   • Innovision Jewel cards such as IRT5001 card

   • Feli Ca cards such as RCS_860 and RCS_854

5. Up to 5cm~7cm reading distance

6. On-board level shifter, Standard 5V TTL for I2C and UART, 3.3V TTL SPI

7. Arduino compatible, plug in and play with our shield

Description

Here we introduce 3 basic example of this module.

Read/write RFID card

As basic function, this module could read and write RFID card. Various cards could be supported.

We also supply libraries for Arduino.

P2P communication

Two peer PN532 modules could communicate with each other wirelessly.

NFC with Andriod Phone

The basic communication stamp with Andriod Phone (NFC supported) is finished. Currently we could put an URL to Android phone and let it visit a webpage.