Customised reader

has announced the immediate availability of RangeMaster, said to be industry’s first solution that allows system vendors to design and maintain a single “universal” reader than can be customised to read different RFID tag types, with different modulation schemes and frequencies.

RangeMaster fully supports EPC Global Gen 1 and Gen 2 (class 0, 1, 2) and ISO18000-6 standards and is the first in a family of RFID reader solutions that Anadigm is developing for RFID markets. RFID technology is said to have the potential to revolutionise markets as diverse as retail sales - by eliminating the check-out line and controlling inventory - to ensuring that luggage gets put on the right airplane.

RangeMaster is a two-chip solution that uses a customised Field Programmable Analogue Array (FPAA) in conjunction with an RFID State Machine, enabling system designers to develop a universal RFID tag reader that can support multiple protocols and frequencies for Universal Fixed Readers, Portable/Handheld Readers, Combination Bar Code and RFID Reader/Scanners.