Mass-production compound contactless electromagnetic induced identification code IC

• US 20030160099A1
• Filed: 07/08/2002
• Published: 08/28/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corporation
• Inventors: Lin, Chung-Ping
• Granted Patent: US 6,786,403 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/439
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 1/128 by electric registration, e.g. electrolytic, spark erosion recording apparatus for measuring instruments G01D15/06; information storage in general G11
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07 with integrated circuit chips
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07716 the record carrier comprising means for customization, e.g. being arranged for personalization in batch

Abstract

The present invention provides a kind of contactless electromagnetic identification code IC circuit, which contains a control circuit to detect an input pad, and to provide a coding signal to decide one identification code for the contactless electromagnetic induced identification code IC. The control circuit contains: a carry clock signal source, which provides a carry clock signal to the input pad for generating a responding signal from the input pad; and a flip-flop set, which connects to the input pad, decides the identification code and forms the coding signal according to the pad'"'"'s responding signal and the carry clock signal.

Claims

1. A mass-production compound contactless electromagnetic induced identification code IC circuit having a control circuit to detect an input pad, and to provide a coding signal to decide an identification code for said contactless electromagnetic induced identification code IC circuit, and said control circuit comprising:

a carry clock signal source providing a carry clock signal to said input pad for generating a responding signal from said input pad; and

a flip-flop set connecting to said input pad and forming said coding signal according to said responding signal of said input pad and said carry clock signal in order to decide said identification code.

2. An IC circuit according to claim 1 wherein said input pad'"'"'s responding signal contains three kinds of potential levels:

a low potential level, a high potential levels, and a floating potential level.

3. An IC circuit according to claim 1 wherein a buffer is located between the carry clock signal source and the input pad.

4. An IC circuit according to claim 1 wherein said flip-flop set is D-type.

5. An IC circuit according to claim 4 wherein said D-type flip-flop set contains three D-type flip-flops.

6. An IC circuit according to claim 1 wherein a Schmidt trigger is located between the flip-flop set and the input pad.

7. An Ic circuit according to claim 1 wherein said coding signal is a 2-bits coding signal for presenting three types of said input pad.

8. A mass-production compound contactless electromagnetic induced identification code IC circuit having an input pad at least, said input pad being used for a coding purpose, which generating one of three input pad types to decide an identification code for said contactless electromagnetic induced identification code IC circuit with a producing process.

9. An IC circuit according to claim 8, wherein said three states of said input pad are a high level, a low level, and a floating level.

10. An IC circuit according to claim 8, wherein said producing process is a bonding producing process.

11. An IC circuit according to claim 8, wherein a number of said input pad can be N, which is an integer that larger than 0.

12. An IC circuit according to claim 11, wherein said N input pads decide three powers of N kinds of identification codes.

13. An IC circuit according to claim 12, wherein said three powers of N kinds of identification codes are stored in said IC circuit.