AMIC A9280-B-000 13.56MHz Compact Flash RFID Reader User Manual Rev 1.0 © AMIC 2004 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from AMIC. AMIC Technology Corporation. No.2, Li-Hsin 6th Road, SBIP, 300 Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C TEL: 886-3-5679966 FAX: 886-3-5679977 © AMIC Dec.
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AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide 1. Introduction Thank you for purchasing AMIC A9280-B-000 Compact Flash RFID Reader. AMIC’s A9280-B-000 is a user-friendly RFID operating at 13.56MHz frequency range. This RFID reader is to be used with PDA or handheld devices equipped with Compact Flash Type-1 or Type-2 slot. AMIC’s A9280-B-000 is a Compact Flash RFID reader is compliant with the international recognized ISO-15693 standard. It has built-in antenna for easy of use, and it is capable of 200mW RF power output.
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AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide 3. Setup Your PC Before installing AMIC A9280-B-000 device driver onto your PDA, make sure that the PC used to connect to your PDA has the appropriate synchronization software installed. PDA’s synchronization software will enable user to install the necessary device driver and GUI utility for AMIC A9280-B-000 CF on to your PDA. For example, Microsoft’s Active Sync should be used with PDA running Microsoft Pocket PC 2003 (WinCE.NET 4.
AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide 4. Install A9280-B-000 Pocket PC Device Driver To install A9280-B-000 Pocket PC device driver on your PDA, please follow the following procedures: 1. Make sure that the required PDA synchronization software has been installed on your PC. 2. 3. Turn on your PC and wait for it to boot up completely. Connect your PDA to your PC through PDA manufacturer recommended method. 4. (either through cradle, USB cable, or etc) Establish communication between your PC and your PDA. 5. 6.
AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide 10. The License Agreement screen will be displayed as in Figure - 2 Figure - 2 11. Select “I accept the terms in the license agreement” 12. Click on the Finish button The A9280-B-000 Pocket PC device driver is now installed on your PDA. For detail operating instructions on how to establish communication link between PC and PDA, please refer to PDA manufacturer’s operating manual. © AMIC Dec. 2004 – All rights reserved p5 of 19 Rev 1.
AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide 5. Install AMIC A9280-B-000 GUI Utility on PDA 1. Make sure that the required PDA synchronization software has been installed on your PC. 2. 3. Turn on your PC and wait for it to boot up completely. Connect your PDA to your PC through PDA manufacturer recommended method. 4. (either through cradle, USB cable, or etc) Establish communication between your PC and your PDA. 5. 6. Put the device driver / GUI utility CD in your PC’s CD-ROM drive.
AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide 6. AMIC A9280-B-000 GUI Utility Software Introduction The GUI Utility software is a user-friendly graphical-user-interface which enables its users to have full access to their RFID tags. These functionalities include reading data from tags, accessing specific memory location within tags’ memory space, and writing data on to the tag. For detail tag memory structure, please see respective tag manufacturer’s datasheet.
AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide Launch the GUI Utility on PDA 1. Make sure that the AMIC A9280-B-000 RFID CF reader is inserted into PDA’s CF slot securely 2. 3. “New Hardware Found” window will be displayed as in figure – 5 Use PDA’s stylus and single tap on “OK” button 4. Use PDA’s File Explorer to list application files available 5. 6. Use PDA’s stylus and single tap on Rfid15693Demo.exe The following screen should be displayed Figure - 5 7. 8.
AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide Figure - 6 9. If “Init Fail” is being displayed in the dialog box to the right of the COM port setting, the PDA has failed to initialize the CF reader through the specified COM port. This could be caused by several reasons: a) the CF reader is not positioned correctly in the CF slot. b) COM port conflict has occurred. Please use another available COM port on the PDA. The available COM port for CF reader is dependent on the type of PDA that you used.
AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide Read Card UID Each RFID tag has an unique identification number (UID). You can use AMIC CF reader to read UID from RFID tags. Make sure the GUI screen displays Init OK in the System Status Dialog Box. To read UID from tags follow the steps listed below: 1. Hold the PDA such that the distance between the tag and the CF reader is no longer than 7 cm. 2. Single click on ReadCardUID button to read tag’s UID 3.
AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide Read Block Data Each RFID tag has user accessible memory blocks. Typically each memory block contains 4 bytes of data for tags complying with ISO-15693 standard. Please refer to RFID tag manufacturer’s data sheet for details. AMIC’s A9280-B-000 CF reader will read 4 bytes of data per block from RFID tags at a time. Please follow the steps below for Read Block Data. 1. Single click on the Block No.
AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide Write Block Data Each RFID tag has user accessible memory blocks. Typically each memory block contains 4 bytes of data for tags complying with ISO-15693 standard. Please refer to RFID tag manufacturer’s data sheet for details. AMIC’s A9280-B-000 CF reader will write 4 bytes of data per block to RFID tags at a time. Please follow the steps below for Read Block Data. 1. Single click on the Block No.
AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide 7. If ErrCode=02 is displayed in the Response Information box, the CF reader did not read the tag memory correctly. The Operation OK / Fail Display box will turn red. Please follow steps 1 through 3 again. 8. It is at user’s discretion that Read Data should be performed after writing data on to the tag to verify that Write Data has been performed successfully and correctly. Please refer to Read Block Data for how to read data from RFID tags. © AMIC Dec.
AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide AutoScan ON The AutoScan ON function enables the user to let the CF reader automatically perform Read Card UID function. Once enabled, the reader will perform Read Card UID at 0.3 second interval. Each time the CF reader performs the Read Card UID function, a red or green box should be displayed depends on the result of the Read Card UID operation.
AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide Auto OFF The Auto OFF function disables the AutoScan ON function. To turn-off the AutoScan ON function of the CF reader, please follow the steps below: 1. 2. Single click on the Auto OFF box. The reader shall stop reading RFID tags. OFF 3 Figure – 11 © AMIC Dec. 2004 – All rights reserved p15 of 19 Rev 1.
AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide Clear The Clear button enables the user to clear the Response Information box any time during CF reader operation. Clear button can be tapped any time to clear the Response Information display. ON 3 Figure – 12 © AMIC Dec. 2004 – All rights reserved p16 of 19 Rev 1.
AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide Exit The Exit button allows the user to close and exit the GUI utility. User should turn-off AutoScan ON function by single click on the Auto Off button first before exiting from the GUI utility. 1. 2. Single click on the Exit box. The GUI utility should be closed and return to your previous PDA display screen. © AMIC Dec. 2004 – All rights reserved p17 of 19 Rev 1.
AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide Revision History Revision Date Description By _____________________________________________________________________________ 1.0 12/30/2004 Initial creation © AMIC Dec. 2004 – All rights reserved p18 of 19 H. Yu Rev 1.
AMIC A9280-B-000 User Guide NOTE: The changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment. To comply with the FCC RF exposure compliance requirements, this device and its antenna must not be co-located or operating to conjunction with any other antenna or transmitter.
