PN736X
NFC Cortex-M0 microcontroller
Rev. 3.2 — 13 December 2016
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Product data sheet
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1. General description
The PN736X family is a family of 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0-based NFC microcontrollers
offering high performance and low power consumption. It has a simple instruction set and
memory addressing along with a reduced code size compared to existing architectures.
PN736Xoffers an all in one solution, with features such as NFC, microcontroller, and
software in a single chip. It operates at CPU frequencies of up to 20 MHz. It is part of the
PN7462AU product family which offers a common set of features, library and tools.
The peripheral complement of the PN736X microcontroller includes 160/80 kB of flash
memory, 12 kB of SRAM data memory and 4 kB EEPROM. It also includes one host
interface with either high-speed mode I2C-bus, SPI, USB or high-speed UART, and two
master interfaces, SPI and Fast-mode Plus I2C-bus. Four general-purpose counter/timers,
a random number generator, one CRC coprocessor and up to 21 general-purpose I/O
pins are also available.
The PN736X NFC microcontroller offer a one chip solution to build contactless
applications. It is equipped with a highly integrated high-power output NFC-IC for
contactless communication at 13.56 MHz enabling EMV-compliance on RF level, without
additional external active components.
PN736X supports the following operating modes:
• ISO/IEC 14443-A and B, MIFARE
• JIS X 6319-4 (comparable with FeliCa scheme)
• ISO/IEC 15693, ICODE, ISO/IEC 18000-3 mode 3
• NFC protocols - tag reader/writer, P2P
• ISO/IEC 14443- type A card emulation
• EMVCo compliance
2. Features and benefits
2.1 Integrated contactless interface frontend
High RF output power frontend IC for transfer speed up to 848 kbit/s
NFC IP1 and NFC IP2 support
Full NFC tag support (type 1, type 2, type 3, type 4A and type 4B)
P2P active and passive, target and initiator
Card emulation ISO14443 type A
ISO/IEC 14443 type A and type B