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Ultralight EV1 (48 Byte) vs. ICODE 3

These two chips, the Ultralight EV1 (48 Byte) and the ICODE 3 are from different NFC chip families. The Ultralight EV1 (48 Byte), manufactured by NXP belonging to the MIFARE family, and the ICODE 3, manufactured by .

The NXP MIFARE Ultralight® EV1 is a updated version of the very popular Ultralight chip from NXP. The original Ultralight chip dates back to 2001 and the product has been used for ticketing the world over. It’s a very simple, reliable and cost effective product. Unfortunately, there’s probably almost as many non-genuine MIFARE Ultralight chips as genuine ones. The EV1 update added an originality check feature to help counteract this.

There are two variants of the Ultralight EV1 with two memory capacities. The smaller chip has 48 bytes of usable memory (similar to the NTAG210 and NTAG210micro) and the larger has 128 bytes (similar to the NTAG212).

Key Features

User Memory
48 Bytes
Max URL
40 Chars*
User Memory
0 Bytes
Max URL
0 Chars*
*Characters

Key Specifications

BrandNXP
Chip SeriesMIFARE
NFC ForumType 2
AvailabilityHigh
ScanStrengthHigh
Brand
Chip Series
NFC Forum
Availability
ScanStrength

Phone compatibility

Apple
Android
Apple
Android

Typical Use Cases

  • Single Use Vouchers
  • Transport Ticketing
  • Event Ticketing
  • Marketing

User Features

 Ultralight EV1 (48 Byte)ICODE 3
Total memory (bytes)800
User memory (bytes)480
Max URL (chars)400
UID (bytes)70
ECC signature
32-bit password
UID ASCII mirror-
Scan Counter-
Counter ASCII mirror-
Lockable

Technical Specifications

 Ultralight EV1 (48 Byte)ICODE 3
Chip thickness75 µm / 120 µm
NFC ForumType 2
Operating Freq.13.56Mhz
Data Trans. Rate106 kbit/s
Input Capacitance17pF / 50pF
Fast read
Data retention (years)100
Write endurance (cycles)100000 0
Anticollision-
StandardISO/IEC 14443 A
Release date2013

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