Description:
The PN532 is a most popular NFC chip, and is what is embedded in pretty much every phone or device that does NFC. It can pretty much do it all, such as read and write to tags and cards, communicate with phones (say for payment processing), and 'act' like a NFC tag. If you want to do any sort of embedded NFC work.

NFC (Near Field Communications) is a way for two devices very close to each other to communicate. Sort of like a very short range bluetooth that doesn't require authentication. It is an extension of RFID, so anything you can do with RFID you can do with NFC. You can do more stuff with NFC as well, such as communicate bi-directionally with cell phones.

Because it can read and write tags, you can always just use this for RFID-tag projects. We carry a few different tags that work great with this chip. It can also work with any other NFC/RFID Type 1 thru 4 tag (and of course all the other NXP MiFare type tags). Please check the related products Tab.

The PN532 is also very flexible, you can use 3.3V TTL UART at any baud rate, I2C or SPI to communicate with it. This chip is also strongly supported by libnfc, simply plug in an FTDI cable and use the FTDI serial port device to communicate - this lets you do NFC dev using any Linux/Mac/Windows computer! We also include onboard power LED, 3.3V regulator and an FTDI header so you can plug in an FTDI friend or FTDI cable and use with libnfc.

We have used this board extensively for our own protyping projects and they are used in several commercial locations. If you are in need of a developer to make a product for you, please contact EZtronics!

Specifications:
Included are:

• the PN532 breakout board including a tuned 13.56MHz stripline antenna
• 0.1" header
• 2 jumpers/shunts
• 4050 level shifter chip
• a Mifare Classic 1K card!
• Dimensions: 51mm x 117.7mm and 1.1mm thick
• This board/chip uses I2C 7-bit address 0x48

Resources:
Information to use this Board