One Billion Devices

June 17, 2010

AMONG THESE ACHIEVEMENTS, NXP also is celebrating a production milestone with its ICODE chip. Recently, the company shipped its one-billionth component. In an effort to maintain this device's success, NXP has launched the ICODE SLIx platform (Figure 1). This platform offers enhanced flexibility and 100-percent backward compatibility with existing solutions.

ICODE SLIx vows to provide a reader range that is up to 20 percent higher than existing ICODE SLI products. Different chip configurations also are available in high-capacitance versions for smaller label designs. Finally, ICODE SLIx includes a 32-b password capability for electronic-article-surveillance (EAS) and standardized application-family-identifier (AFI) applications.

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Paul Whytock | Editor-in-Chief

Paul Whytock is European Editor for Microwaves & RF and European Editor-in-Chief for Electronic Design. He reports on the latest news and technology developments in Europe for his US readers while providing his European engineering audience with global news coverage from the electronics sector. Trained originally as a design engineer with Ford Motor Co., Whytock holds an HNC in mechanical, electrical, and production engineering.