2 General description

PN7160 is an NFC controller designed for integration in mobile devices and devices compliant with NFC

standards (NFC Forum, NCI).

PN7160 is designed based on experience from previous NXP NFC device generation to ease the integration of

NFC technology in mobile devices by providing:

• A low PCB footprint and a reduced external Bill of Material

• An optimized architecture for low-power consumption in different modes (Standby, low-power polling loop)

• A highly efficient integrated power management unit allowing direct supply from an extended battery supply

range (2.8 V to 5.5 V).

• Support of an external DC-to-DC like NXP PCA941xA (with x = 0, 1 and 2), to provide more output power.

PN7160 embeds a new generation RF contactless front-end, supporting various transmission modes according

to NFCIP-1 (see Ref. [9]) and NFCIP-2 (see Ref. [11]), ISO/IEC14443 (see Ref. [3]) , ISO/IEC 15693 (see Ref.

[10]), MIFARE and FeliCa specifications. This new contactless front-end design brings a major performance

step-up with on one hand a higher sensitivity and on the other hand the capability to work in active load

modulation communication enabling the support of small antenna form factor. It also allows to provide a higher

output power by supplying the transmitter output stage from 2.7 V to 5.25 V.

• Enhanced Dynamic LMA (DLMA) to optimize and to enhance load modulation amplitude depending on

external field strength. It allows higher range communication distance in card mode.

• Independent LMA phase adjustment by step of 5° for type A, B and F

• Dynamic power control which allows to make use of the maximum power in reader mode without exceeding

the maximum power allowed by the standard in 0 distance.

• Card mode receiver sensitivity of 20 mV(p-p)

• Support of single ended receiver

• 1.3 W output transmitter power

3 Features and benefits

• Highly integrated demodulator and decoder

• Buffered output drivers to connect an antenna with minimum number of external components

• Integrated RF level detector

• Integrated Polling Loop for automatic device discovery

• RF protocols supported

– ISO/IEC 14443A, ISO/IEC 14443B PICC mode

– ISO/IEC 14443A, ISO/IEC 14443B PCD mode designed according to NFC Forum digital protocol T4T

platform and ISO-DEP (see Ref. [1])

– FeliCa PCD mode

– MIFARE PCD encryption mechanism (MIFARE 1K/4K)

– NFC Forum tags T1T, T2T, T3T, T4T and T5T (see Ref. [1])

– NFCIP-1, NFCIP-2 protocol (see Ref. [9] and Ref. [11])

– NFC Forum certification for P2P, reader and card mode (see Ref. [1])

– ISO/IEC 15693/ICODE VCD mode (see Ref. [10])

– NFC Forum-compliant embedded T4T for NDEF short record

– Support for Enhanced Contactless Polling by Apple (see Ref. [13]) (PN7161 only)

• Supported host interfaces

– NCI protocol interface according to NFC Forum standardization (see Ref. [2])

– I2C-bus High-speed mode (see Ref. [4])

– SPI-bus (see Ref. [5])

• Flexible clock supply concept to facilitate PN7160 integration

– Internal oscillator for 27.12 MHz crystal connection

– Integrated PLL unit to make use of device reference clock and facilitate PN7160 integration

• Integrated power management unit

– Direct connection to a battery (2.5 V to 5.5 V voltage supply range)

– Support different low-power states configuration: Hard Power-Down state and Standby state activated by

firmware

– Autonomous mode when host is shut down

• Automatic wake-up via RF field, internal timer, and host interfaces

• Integrated non-volatile memory to store data and executable code for customization

– Anti tearing support to recover from tearing events

• Standards compliance

– NFC Forum Device Requirements (see Ref. [1])

– NCI 2.0

4 Applications

• Mobile devices

• Portable equipment (personal digital assistants, tablet, notebook, wearable)

• Consumer devices

• Smart home gateways