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Pascal Roobrouck edited this page Dec 11, 2019 · 1 revision

NCF provides 3 types of applications:

  1. ReaderWriter : this is detecting NCF smartCards and reading/writing data to/from them.
  2. TagEmulation : this application makes your microcontroller behave to other NFC Readers/Writers as if it's a smartCard
  3. Peer2Peer : this application makes 2 NFC devices talk and exchange data with each other, similar in the way eg. BlueTooth does..

As I wanted to limit the scope of this driver, I decided to start with Reader/Writer. This application allows the MCU to read and write NFC-enabled smartcards.

A typical application is using an NFC smartcard as a 'Key' in some access control application. For this application it is not required to read or write any data from/to the card. Only detecting the card already provides you with its unique ID, which can be used as the key in your application.

Until I have access to the required NCI specifications, reading and writing data is under development.

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