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RFID tag circuits, tags, and methods are provided for using alternative memory lock bits. A pointer in tag memory is configured to point to one or the other of the alternative lock bits associated with a section of the memory for performing a function in response to a reader command. Upon receiving the reader command, the tag first checks the pointer and performs the function based on which lock bit(s) is selected.
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RFID reader systems, components, software and methods are provided for use premises that have RFID-tagged items. When a person comes onto an enclosure of the premises already carrying a personal tag, the incoming code of that personal tag is read. When later the person exits the enclosure, they could be transporting some of the items that have actionable codes. The actionable codes can be read, but the incoming code can be removed from them, before the actionable codes are acted upon, in Point-of-Sale or Electronic Article Surveillance systems.
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RFID tags have an on-chip antenna and an off-chip antenna. One of the antennas can become uncoupled if the proper signal is received, while the other antenna may still operate. The uncoupled antenna can be the larger one, for example the off-chip antenna. Then the tag can then be read only by the smaller antenna, which effectively reduces the range of the RFID tag, but without disabling it entirely.
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A system and method for generating a rectified signal in a RFID tag. An alternating signal is received by the RFID tag, and a first phase of the alternating signal is coupled to a gate and to a first non-controlling terminal of a first switching transistor. The non-controlling terminal of the first switching transistor is one of a source and a drain of the first switching transistor. A first bias voltage is applied between the first non-controlling terminal and the gate of the first switching transistor and a rectified voltage is received between the first non-controlling terminal and a second non-controlling terminal of the first switching transistor.
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RFID system components, such as readers and tags, communicate where at least a portion of data or a password is transmitted in encrypted form. The reader transmits a command, along with data or a password encrypted using an encryption kernel. In some instances, the tag itself has sent the kernel.
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RFID readers exchange information with RFID tags. The information is encoded for transmission and decoded upon reception. Encoding is in binary bits, which are in turn encoded in waveform segments. The last transmitted waveform incorporates an ending-triggering transition, and terminates in a preset manner with respect to when the ending-triggering transition occurs. Parsing while decoding can happen by waiting for the ending-triggering transition, and then waiting according to the preset manner. This way there is no ambiguity in the ending of the waveform, and no End Frame is necessary.
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Analog-valued floating-gate transistors are used as trimmable circuit components for modifying and/or controlling the gain, phase, offset, frequency response, current consumption, and/or transfer function of signal pathways in parallel and/or serial processing circuits in radio frequency, analog, or mixed-signal integrated circuits.
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Analog-valued floating-gate transistors are used as trimmable circuit components for modifying and/or controlling the gain, phase, offset, frequency response, current consumption, and/or transfer function of signal pathways in parallel and/or serial processing circuits in radio frequency, analog, or mixed-signal integrated circuits.
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An autozeroing floating-gate amplifier (AFGA) is implemented utilizing a programmable gain element, the characteristics of which may be changed by changing the amount of charge stored on a floating gate device.
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Hot-electron injection driven by a hole impact ionization mechanism at the channel-drain junction provides a new method of hot electron injection. Using this mechanism, a four-terminal pFET floating-gate silicon MOS transistor for analog learning applications provides nonvolatile memory storage. Electron tunneling permits bidirectional memory updates. Because these updates depend on both the stored memory value and the transistor terminal voltages, the synapses can implement a learning function. The synapse learning follows a simple power law. Unlike conventional EEPROMs, the synapses allow simultaneous memory reading and writing. Synapse transistor arrays can therefore compute both the array output, and local memory updates, in parallel. Synaptic arrays employing these devices enjoy write and erase isolation between array synapses is better than 0.01% because the tunneling and injection processes are exponential in the transistor terminal voltages. The synapses are small, and typically are operated at subthreshold current levels.