A robust radio frequency identification system enhanced with spread spectrum technique

A robust passive UHF RFID backscatter system enhanced with spread spectrum technique is presented in this paper. Due to the weak signal energy of the backscatter chain, traditional RFID backscatter communication is easily affected by the noises, interferences, and interceptions from the environment. To solve the problem, spread spectrum technique is introduced into the backscatter link of RFID system. Simulated results show that this approach largely reduces the bit error rate and improves the system's reliability and security. For hardware realization, spectrum spreading operation is implemented in a RFID tag baseband processor, which is finally applied into a complete RFID tag and fabricated using 0.18 um 1P6M CMOS technology. Furthermore, de-spreading operation including the PN acquisition is integrated into a FPGA implementation of RFID reader. Thus, a complete robust RFID backscatter system enhanced with spread spectrum technique is constructed.