Purchasing Correct Development Tools

mwilson — Sun, 26 May 2019 16:08:30 GMT

I am a Senior Software Engineer and a systems programmer, but don't have a ton of experience in hardware design. Please consider me inexperienced for the following question.

I am wanting to evaluate NXP's MFRC630 (product) and MFRC630 plus (product) for use in a board game consumer product (similar to the published use case). This product will include 8-12 readers all connected to a single micro, single board computer (The Raspberry Pi Zero W for prototyping, at least). I need to design antennas for the MFRC* chip and an interface wire it up to the Raspberry PI. Ideally, all of the antenna interfaces and controller interfaces would be on a single PCB, which then has the various antennas and raspberry pi connected to it.

After much research, I am excited to get started building a prototype, but wanted to make sure I was purchasing and using the correct tools and resources.

For development, I was intending on getting samples for

- MFRC 630

- MFRC 630plus

And purchasing the

- OM29263ADK: NFC Antenna Development Kit

- CLEV6630A: MFRC630 and SLRC610 NFC Frontend Development Board

Though I wasn't sure if I wanted the CLEV6630A or the OM26630FDK as the development board.

I was then going to begin with the resources:

- Design your NFC Antenna Training

- Antenna Design Guide

And figure out where to go from there. Am I on the right track? Is there a different development board I should purchase?

Thank you for your help.

Re: Purchasing Correct Development Tools

jimmychan — Thu, 30 May 2019 07:25:19 GMT

I think you only need the OM26630FDK, you don't need the CLEV6630A.

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Purchasing Correct Development Tools

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