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Ultralight EV1 (48 Byte) vs. NTAG215

These two chips, the Ultralight EV1 (48 Byte) and the NTAG215 are from different NFC chip families. The Ultralight EV1 (48 Byte), manufactured by NXP belonging to the MIFARE family, and the NTAG215, 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 NTAG215 chip was launched in 2013 alongside the NTAG213, NTAG212, NTAG210 and NTAG216. It's a full featured chip with a medium size memory capacity. It isn't as common as the NTAG213 chip and is only available in a limited number of products unless made to order.

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
504 Bytes
Max URL
488 Chars*
*Characters

Key Specifications

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

Phone compatibility

Apple
Android
Apple
Android

Typical Use Cases

  • Single Use Vouchers
  • Transport Ticketing
  • Event Ticketing
  • Marketing
  • vCards (Use vCard-Go)
  • Object Identification
  • Long tracking URLs

User Features

 Ultralight EV1 (48 Byte)NTAG215
Total memory (bytes)80540
User memory (bytes)48504
Max URL (chars)40488
UID (bytes)77
ECC signature
32-bit password
UID ASCII mirror-
Scan Counter-
Counter ASCII mirror-
Lockable

Technical Specifications

 Ultralight EV1 (48 Byte)NTAG215
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 / 50pF50pf
Fast read
Data retention (years)1010
Write endurance (cycles)100000 100000
Anticollision-
StandardISO/IEC 14443 AISO/IEC 14443 A
Release date20132013

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