Alien Technology awarded EPCglobal certification mark

Alien Technology Corporation has announced that the company has been awarded the EPCglobal Certification Mark for its new UHF Generation 2 RFID integrated circuit. The certification mark signifies that hardware products have been tested and should operate according to the EPCglobal UHF Generation 2 Air Interface Protocol standard ratified in December 2004. This same air interface is in process of being approved as ISO specification 18000-6C.

Alien has received first production wafers from its foundry partner, Tower Semiconductor, and plans to complete the transition to the new Gen 2 chip with Alien’s proprietary Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA)-based manufacturing process in the first half of fiscal 2007.

The EPCglobal hardware certification mark is designed to demonstrate to purchasing companies that EPCglobal-certified products have been rigorously tested against EPCglobal Standards.

‘We want to enable companies that are implementing EPC in their business to have easy access to non-biased, reliable information about EPC hardware,’ said Chris Adcock, president of EPCglobal Inc. ‘This way, companies will be better able to focus on their business at hand and have confidence in the products they select for EPC implementations.’

The EPCglobal hardware certification is conducted by MET Laboratories, a third-party, nationally-recognized testing facility located in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States.