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Ultralight EV1 (48 Byte) vs. NTAG210µ

These two chips, the Ultralight EV1 (48 Byte) and the NTAG210µ are from different NFC chip families. The Ultralight EV1 (48 Byte), manufactured by NXP belonging to the MIFARE family, and the NTAG210µ, also manufactured by NXP.

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).

The NTAG210µ or NTAG210 micro was released by NXP to create the cheapest possible price point for an NFC chip. Having a small memory capacity and minimal features, it's designed primarily for short ID's, short web links or just for a UID.

However, despite it's limited memory and features, it still packs the same great ScanStrength performance of the rest of the NTAG range. Seritag regularly stock large tag quantities with the NTAG210µ chip as it's a great cost-effective way to add NFC to packaging and products.

Both these chips have a strong ScanStrength and will work very well with mobile phones.

Key Features

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

Key Specifications

BrandNXP
Chip SeriesMIFARE
NFC ForumType 2
AvailabilityHigh
ScanStrengthHigh
BrandNXP
Chip SeriesNTAG
NFC ForumType 2
AvailabilityMedium
ScanStrengthHigh

Phone compatibility

Apple
Android
Apple
Android

Typical Use Cases

  • Single Use Vouchers
  • Transport Ticketing
  • Event Ticketing
  • Marketing
  • Packaging
  • Product marketing
  • Advertising
  • Large scale asset tagging

User Features

 Ultralight EV1 (48 Byte)NTAG210µ
Total memory (bytes)8064
User memory (bytes)4848
Max URL (chars)4040
UID (bytes)77
ECC signature
32-bit password -
UID ASCII mirror--
Scan Counter--
Counter ASCII mirror--
Lockable

Technical Specifications

 Ultralight EV1 (48 Byte)NTAG210µ
Chip thickness75 µm / 120 µm75 µm / 120 µm
NFC ForumType 2Type 2
Operating Freq.13.56Mhz13.56Mhz
Data Trans. Rate106 kbit/s106 kbit/s
Input Capacitance17pF / 50pF17pF / 50pF
Fast read -
Data retention (years)1010
Write endurance (cycles)100000 100000
Anticollision--
StandardISO/IEC 14443 AISO/IEC 14443 A
Release date20132016

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