Date: 26/09/2012

NFC measurement software from Rohde & Schwarz

The Rohde & Schwarz (R&S) has released FS-K112PC NFC measurement software to analyze the NFC signals and measure the most important parameters of such signals. Near field communications (NFC) is the proximity communications system for applications such as contactless payment, electronic ticketing or exchanging digital content. NFC is to be integrated into mobile phones and smartphones to a growing extent.

R&S FS-K112PC measures NFC signals from readers and listeners and supports all three types of NFC signals. RF parameters such as modulation depth and modulation index, voltage profiles and rise/fall times are delivered by the software in accordance with the relevant standards and NFC specifications. An automatic limit check is integrated. Transmitted messages are demodulated, and several standard messages are decoded. The software can also be used to check the correct response of listeners to a poll command, allowing functional tests to be performed.

The software supports R&S RTO digital oscilloscopes, R&S FSV and R&S FSL spectrum analyzers and R&S ZVL network analyzers.

Customers are to benefit from how easy R&S FS-K1122PC makes it to perform NFC RF measurements: Automatic detection of NFC-A, NFC-B and NFC-C transmission modes or manual selection.

Source: Rohde and Schwarz