NFC/RFID benchmark design and verification strategy against EMVCo standard

In this paper, the problem of NFC/RFID technology frontend performance verification is addressed. To make this technology succeeded, it is necessary to test conformance, acceptance, compliance, consistency and interoperability of NFC/contactless infrastructure. Industry bodies such as EMVCo is developing and maintaining programs to ensure device conformance, acceptance, compliance, consistency, and interoperability. Thus, a Test Bench Simulator is proposed, based on a Computer Aided Design tool, which allows flexible, fast and accurate verification strategy for NFC technology designs against complete test plans that are fully compliant with EMVCo NFC/contactless experimental specifications. To verify the proposed design, simulations are carried out and results are compared to the results of particular measurements done by the EMVCo laboratories. All results show a pretty good matching with EMVCo standard. Additionally, in this paper, simulation is conducted using full-wave 3D FEM EM Simulator.