NXP PN7120 NFC controller

The NXP PN7120 NFC controller provides a plug-and-play, full NFC solution for easy integration into any OS environment. The product helps create innovative 13.56 MHz NFC solutions and enables fast exploration of applications and use cases for the Internet of Things (IoT), including a variety of appliances and consumer electronics such as home network gateways and routers, set-top boxes (STBs), audio devices, printers and gaming consoles.

The controller features full NFC forum compliancy with small form-factor antennas, ultralow-power consumption in polling loop mode and an efficient integrated power management unit (PMU) that allows direct supply from a battery at 2.3 to 5.5 V. It combines a contactless NFC front-end with an embedded 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller to support NFC card emulation, reader/writer and peer-to-peer modes.

The product embeds the microcontroller core with integrated firmware supporting the NFC controller interface (NCI) 1.0 and I²C-bus communication. It includes integrated non-volatile memory to store data and executable code for customisation. Through its drivers and software, the device is optimised for Linux and Android operating systems and is easy to integrate into any other embedded operating system.