SLOA227B October 2015 – March 2019 TRF7964A , TRF7964A , TRF7970A , TRF7970A
After activation is finished for a Type 4B tag the ATTRIB command must be issued to finish the selection of the tag to exchange data with it. The ATTRIB command sends the tag information on timing requirements, framing specifications for RF communication and for data packets, supported communication bit rates, and the CID value assigned to the tag.
To determine the highest mutually supported bit rate between the tag and the reader/writer the tenth byte of the SENSB_RES is compared with the enabled reader/writer bit-rate setting. One of the bytes in the ATTRIB command is then set to tell the tag to operate at that bit rate. The possible bit rates are: 106 kbps, 212 kbps, 424 kbps, and 848 kbps.
The response to the ATTRIB (Answer to ATTRIB) is an acknowledgment that it received the ATTRIB command. Upon receiving the ATTRIB response, the firmware sets the ISO Control Register (0x01) with the correct settings to transmit data at the previously determined bit rate. Now the reader/writer and Type 4B tag can enter data exchange. For further detail on the format of the ATTRIB command, refer to the ISO14443-3 specification.