ST offers a wide range of RFID ICs including short-range and long-range products for applications such as mass transit, industrial identification and anti-counterfeiting.

Main common features are:

• 13.56 MHz long-range RFID memory
• 64-bit unique identifier (UID)
• Anti-collision
• 40 years data retention
• 1 million read/write cycles

Short-range products support ISO 14443 type B. They feature 2 x 32-bit countdown only counters, with 106 kbit/s data rate operations.

Long range products support the ISO 15693 and ISO 18000-3 standards. They feature EAS through AFI, with up to 53 kbit/s data rate operations.