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| Philips and Texas Instruments join forces to accelerate EPC Generation
2 RFID deployment | | | |
Industry leaders team up to drive standardization and ensure worldwide
interoperability of ultra-high-frequency Electronic Product Code RFID standard
Two of the leading
radio frequency identification (RFID) semiconductor manufacturers, Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI)
and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN), today announced an agreement to cooperate on conformance
testing for the technical interpretation of the EPCglobal Inc™ Electronic Product Code™ (EPC) Generation (Gen) 2
RFID standard. This joint effort is aimed at ensuring interoperability and accelerating market deployment of Gen 2
products, such as labels, hardware and system solutions, to offer multiple sourcing for implementations of RFID
throughout the world.
The EPC Gen 2 standard, currently in the process of standardization by the International
Standards Organization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for global adoption, is the newest and
most advanced of the RFID specifications for the ultra-high frequency (UHF) band centered around 900 MHz. It is
widely supported by end-users and manufacturers within the RFID industry and will facilitate the widespread
deployment of RFID technology in the retail supply chain. EPC Gen 2 has several advantages over the first-generation
EPC Class 0 and Class 1 standards, including optimized performance in different global regulatory environments,
read/write field programmability, faster tag read/write rates, operation in dense reader environments and migration
to future EPC classes.
“TI and Philips have a successful track record of working together to
drive standards adoption,” said Michael Cernusca, manager of the RFID Product Management Team, Philips
Semiconductors. “Ensuring interoperability between the major IC players will help to bring the EPC Gen 2 standard
into the marketplace as early as possible, allowing the global business community to benefit from deploying RFID
across multinational infrastructures.”
The collaboration supports EPCglobal’s efforts to provide
the market with multiple interoperable products. Philips and TI have worked together in the past to enable and
accelerate the adoption of international RFID standards. The high-frequency RFID standard ISO/IEC 15693, ratified in
1999, illustrates the effectiveness of the companies’ collaboration in this area. Today this road to success is
continued with the infrastructure enablement and deployment of the globally adopted ultra-high-frequency
standard.
“Typically, an international standard – from work plan to final ratification – is a
lengthy process spanning several years. In 2004, TI, Philips and other major RFID suppliers worked to define the Gen
2 standard which was successfully ratified by EPCglobal Inc. in December, a milestone accomplishment in less than 18
months,” said Bill Santini, director of technology development, Texas Instruments RFid Systems. “This agreement with
Philips further accelerates the global infrastructure readiness to deploy Gen 2 devices, for end-users who want a
fast track to implementation.”
The companies are also extending their collaboration efforts
through the ISO process for accelerated ratification of the ISO/IEC 18000-6 Type C standard based on the EPC Gen 2
specification. |
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