Reference equipment The reference equipment your contactless test bench is built on — for ISO 10373-6, EMV® and NFC Forum — designed, built and calibrated by cilab, in-house, under ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation. Reference antennas for every contactless standard you test against. Each standards body defines its own reference equipment for analog and RF testing — and we design, build and calibrate it for all three. ISO/IEC 10373-6 The full reference set — reference PCD, Class 1 to 6 reference PICCs, calibration coils and our automated AUTO-PICC. Reference PICC and test apparatus for EMV® Level 1 contactless qualification and pre-compliance. Reference poller and listener antennas for NFC Forum analog testing. The ISO 10373-6 set The full ISO 10373-6 reference set, from one maker. ISO/IEC 10373-6 defines the reference equipment used to test contactless cards (PICCs) and readers (PCDs). We build all of it — and because we calibrate it ourselves under ISO/IEC 17025, you get one supplier, one calibration source and one short turnaround. The reference reader-antenna assembly, built to the ISO 10373-6 reference PCD geometry. It drives a known, calibrated field to test and characterise PICCs — contactless cards and devices. Reference PICC — Class 1 to 6 The reference card antennas, in all six ISO 10373-6 antenna classes. Placed in a reader's field, they test and characterise PCDs across every card form factor. Calibration coils Calibrate the operating field at the exact device-under-test position, so every analog measurement on the bench is traceable to the standard. Our automated reference PICC, designed to speed up and standardise PCD test sequences by bringing the reference-PICC steps under software control. EMV® Level 1 reference equipment. For EMV® L1 contactless qualification and pre-compliance: the TEST-PICC and the PICC-side test apparatus, built and calibrated by cilab — and positioned across the full EMV® operating volume on the same bench as the ci230's EMV® L1 test benches. The EMV® reference PICC assembly for qualifying the reader (PCD) side — terminals and POS — with calibrated outputs for the L1 analog measurements. The EMV® reference reader antennas (TEST-PCDs) for qualifying the card and device (PICC) side against the L1 analog and digital requirements.

Operating-volume positioning Fixtures and robot positioning place the reference equipment at every defined position of the EMV® operating volume — repeatably, run after run. The NFC Forum set NFC Forum reference antennas for CR15. The reference poller and listener antennas behind NFC Forum CR15 analog testing — placed across the operating volume and paired with the ci230, an NFC Forum approved test tool. Reference listener antenna Tests devices in the poller role: the NFC Forum reference listener presents the defined load and measures what the poller delivers across the operating volume. Reference poller antenna Tests devices in the listener role: the reference poller generates the defined field and timing of the NFC Forum analog test cases. Calibration socket A defined, traceable reference position to calibrate the setup before each measurement run. Calibrated in-house, back in days. A reference antenna is only as good as its calibration — and calibration is recurring. Because we are an ISO/IEC 17025-accredited calibration lab, you don't ship your reference equipment through a chain of third parties: we recalibrate it ourselves, typically in 7 to 10 days and guaranteed within two weeks. ISO/IEC 17025 accredited calibration Typical turnaround 7–10 days, guaranteed within two weeks One supplier for the equipment and its calibration Traceable, documented results Part of a complete test bench. The reference antennas pair directly with the ci230 to form a full contactless test bench — reference equipment, instrument and calibration from a single source. Need a specific reference configuration? Tell us which standards, classes and assemblies you need — we'll put together the right reference set and keep it calibrated.