PN7462 family Quick Start Guide - Development Kit
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7. Software application stack
The PN7462 family firmware is a modular software written in C language, which provides
an API that enables customers to create their own contact and contactless software
stack and applications for the PN7462 Family [5]. This API facilitates all operations and
commands required in contact and contactless applications such as reading or writing
data to cards or tags, exchanging data with other NFC-enabled devices or allowing NFC
reader ICs to emulate cards as well.
The PN7462 family software application stack consists of 4 main layers.
• Application & example layer
• Protocol abstraction layer – PAL
• Hardware abstraction layer – HAL
• OSAL (FreeRTOS) and utilities layer
Fig 50. Static overview of PN7462 family firmware