CRISP: A flexible intergrated development platform for RFID systems

Abstract

In this paper we present an introduction to Cognitive RFID Integrated System Platform (CRISP), a framework for development and implementation of RFID communication protocols. The framework enables advanced research in the area of RFID wireless communication protocols and algorithms by interfacing a large class of experimental medium access control (MAC) with custom physical layer (PHY) implementations. As such, CRISP provides a flexible, scalable, configurable and high performance RFID research tool. The low level protocol handling routines are written in VHDL and higher level functions are programmed in C and targeted to embedded Microblaze soft-core processor within the Xilinx Virtex 5 class of FPGAs. Furthermore, the online open-access repository from The University of Adelaide is available to document and share different architecture and designs with other researchers in the field.