Panthronics cuts development time and effort for NFC wireless charging

Panthronics AG, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in high performance wireless technology, announced the release of a reference design for a complete NFC wireless charging system based on its ground-breaking PTX100W NFC wireless charging controller.

By using the reference design, manufacturers of portable and wearable devices such as earbuds, smart watches, activity monitoring wristbands and smart glasses can quickly and easily implement the hardware and software for an NFC wireless charging system including both the PTX100W-based poller (charging station) and the listener (device), which features a standard NFC tag.

This means that OEMs which are building NFC wireless charging capability into new product designs can easily take advantage of the superior performance and features of the PTX100W.

The new reference design provides manufacturers of wearable and portable devices with a blueprint for a complete system design, including hardware schematics and Gerber files for both the poller and listener circuits, and separate software development kits (SDKs) for the poller and listener. The SDKs include source code for the NFC protocol software, and firmware for controlling charging operations. As well as the PTX100W NFC controller from Panthronics, the reference design also includes microcontrollers from Renesas for system control in the poller and listener circuits, and an Infineon NFC tag on the listener side.