Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method. Information such as identification, logistics history, and specification of products are written and stored into the memory of RFID tags (that is, transponders), and retrieved through RF communication between RFID reader device and RFID tags. RFID systems have been applied to many fields of transportation, industry, logistics, environment, etc in order to improve business efficiency and reduce maintenance cost as well. Recently, some research results are announced in which RFID devices are combined with other sensors for mobile robot localization. In this paper, design of multi-protocol baseband for RFID reader device is proposed, and the baseband modem is implemented into SoC (System On a Chip). The baseband modem SoC for multi-protocol RFID reader is composed of several IP (Intellectual Property) blocks such as multi-protocol blocks, CPU, UART(Universal Asynchronous Receiver and Transmitter), memory, etc. As a result, the SoC implemented with FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array) is applied to real product. It is shown that the size of RFID Reader module designed with the FPGA becomes smaller, and the SoC chip price for the same function becomes cheap. In addition, operation performance could be the same or better than that of the product with no SoC applied.

본 논문에서는 UHF대역 RFID 통신 시스템 간에 발생하는 리더 간섭을 방지하기 위한 전파흡수체를 설계 및 제작하였다. 먼저 자성손실 재료인 Amorphous와 지지재인 CPE(Chlorinated Polyethylene)를 이용하여 조성비별 전파흡수체 샘플을 제작하였고, 이 전파흡수체 샘플로부터 구한 재료정수를 이용하여 시뮬레이션을 한 결과, 최적의 조성비가 Amorphous : CPE = 80 : 20 wt.% 임을 확인하였다. 그리고 시뮬레이션 결과를 토대로 전파흡수체를 실제작하여 전파흡수능을 비교 분석하였다. 그 결과 Amorphous : CPE = 80 : 20 wt.%의 조성비 일 때, 두께 4 mm의 전파흡수체가 860 MHz~960 MHz의 주파수 범위에서 전파흡수능 20 dB 이상의 특성을 얻음으로써 UHF대역의 RFID 리더 간섭을 억제할 수 있음을 확인하였다.