Scope
For NFC/RFID reader designs the development of the antenna is sometimes challenging due to missing RF knowledge and a lack of measurement equipment.
To support customers during the design-in phase, EBV offers the following services:
- Antenna design trainings
- Review and evaluation of customer antennas
- Antenna design as a service
Support offering
- 1-0-1- Antenna training
- Antenna review
- Antenna design
Antenna training
Basic training
- Theoretical lessons
- Exclusively for single customer
- 1 day at EBV
- Includes printed training materials
- Covers topics like HF fundamentals, basic formulas, antenna design and tuning principals, how to measure and test antennas, …
Advanced training – Hands-on
- Practical lessons
- Exclusively for single customer
- 1 day at EBV
- Includes printed training materials
- Includes demo boards and tag samples
- Covers practical calculation of sample antennas and measurement/optimization, component proposal
For further details please contact Christian.Krieber@ebv.com
Antenna review and evaluation
- 1 day at EBV or customer premises
- Review of existing customer design (Eagle or Altium format)- Schematic + layout of
- Reader
- Matching circuit
- Antenna
- Performance check
- Includes tag samples for further testing
- EBV provides review report with design improvement proposal
- Option for compliance testing support (ISO, EMCO, NFC forum)
Antenna design
- Based on customer specification
- 1 day workshop type or EBV full service
- EBV will provide (description, Eagle file)
- Antenna geometry
- Matching circuit
- Component proposal
- Antenna prototype
- Complete reader design with external partner