Contactless Test Station III
Let’s get there faster together! Let’s build what’s next!
September 2021 release
Contactless Test Station III
Accelerator of Excellence
Pushing The Limits of NFC Testing
The CTS III is NI’s biggest investment to date in the field of NFC testing. Taking into account the evolution of the NFC test market, and the feedback of the numerous users of NI’s former generations of NFC test equipment, this tool showcases conformance testing capabilities with a never seen before convenience. Less cabling, less setup time, the CTS III’s vision of NFC automated tests has never been so organic.
Furthermore, the new NFC signal generation features allows to push your design to its limits during its validation phase. Simulation of noise, crosstalk, overshoots and all other parameter adjustment are available directly from our MPManager API.
The CTS III is a combination of hardware resources never used before in the context of NFC tests. Best in class converters, most powerful FPGAs… Non regression test benches combining the use of NFC signal generators, DAQ boards, VNAs, can now be simplified into the deployment of the CTS III. Those parts are combined together using communication buses operating at a range of several GB/s, at the service of the improvement of your own productivity.
Let’s get together faster
The CTS III ambitions at enabling its users a game changer gain in productivity compared to the current generation of NFC test platforms. As an example, our benchmarks show an improvement of test times in the magnitude of 75% to 80% in the context of an EMVCo L1 PCD analog test campaign.
Example of test time reduction VS our latest generation of NFC testers obtained leveraging the CTS III
Tests done according to the EMV Analog test bench and test cases v 3.0a reference test specification
Tests done according to the EMV Analog test bench and test cases v 3.0a reference test specification
Small is beautiful
...and powerful
5 times lighter, 7 times smaller
Use Cases
The Contactless Test Station III will typically be used in the following context :
• Validation and verification of products that embed NFC technology
• Pre-conformance and conformance tests according to the international standards (for example EMVCo, NFC Forum, ISO 10373-6) of products that embed NFC technology
• Interoperability tests of NFC enabled devices
Device under tests may be :
• Smartphones
• Wearables (watches, ear aids, …)
• Payment terminals
• Car door handles
• Contactless smartcards
• Smart and connected devices
• M2M devices
