Cross Platform NFC Stack and its Architecture

Near field communication (NFC) stack is a kind of middleware. Its main task is to implement the function defined by NFC Forum's specifications and protocols and to construct different service models according to the business scenario and NFC operating mode. The present NFC stack can hardly not only meet the requirement of simultaneously support of different types of operation systems and different types of NFC controllers, but also keep compatible to the third party NFC applications. So this paper proposes a cross platform NFC stack architecture. In this architecture, NFC stack can adapt to different operation systems and different NFC controllers. It can also work with different operation system service components or different application frameworks, and third party NFC applications can be supported perfectly.