EMV Contactless Specifications for Payment Systems

1 2016 EMVCo, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction, distribution and other use of this document is permitted only pursuant to the applicable agreement between the user and EMVCo found at EMV is a registered trademark or trademark of EMVCo, LLC in the United States and other countries. EMV Contactless Specifications for Payment Systems Book D EMV Contactless Communication Protocol Specification Version March 2016 EMV Contactless Book D Contactless Comm Protocol March 2016 Page ii 2016 EMVCo, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction, distribution and other use of this document is permitted only pursuant to the applicable agreement between the user and EMVCo found at EMV is a registered trademark or trademark of EMVCo, LLC in the United States and other countries.

2 Legal Notice The EMV Specifications are provided AS IS without warranties of any kind, and EMVCo neither assumes nor accepts any liability for any errors or omissions contained in these Specifications . EMVCO DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AS TO THESE Specifications . EMVCo makes no representations or warranties with respect to intellectual property rights of any third parties in or in relation to the Specifications .

3 EMVCo undertakes no responsibility to determine whether any implementation of the EMV Specifications may violate, infringe, or otherwise exercise the patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, know-how, or other intellectual property rights of third parties, and thus any person who implements any part of the EMV Specifications should consult an intellectual property attorney before any such implementation. Without limiting the foregoing, the Specifications may provide for the use of public key encryption and other technology, which may be the subject matter of patents in several countries.

4 Any party seeking to implement these Specifications is solely responsible for determining whether its activities require a license to any such technology, including for patents on public key encryption technology. EMVCo shall not be liable under any theory for any party s infringement of any intellectual property rights in connection with the EMV Specifications . EMV Contactless Book D Contactless Comm Protocol March 2016 Page iii 2016 EMVCo, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction, distribution and other use of this document is permitted only pursuant to the applicable agreement between the user and EMVCo found at EMV is a registered trademark or trademark of EMVCo, LLC in the United States and other countries.

5 Revision Log Version The following changes have been made to Book D since the publication of Version Some of the numbering and cross references in this version have been updated to reflect changes introduced by the published bulletins. The numbering of existing requirements did not change, unless explicitly stated otherwise. Incorporated changes described in the following Specification Updates: Specification Bulletin No. 168: Amended Timing Requirements Specification Bulletin No. 169: Detectable Disturbance Specification Bulletin No. 172: EMD Handling Clarification Specification Bulletin No.

6 173: PICC Power-on set-up Other editorial changes: Added the sentence "Future versions of this specification may not support this option" to the informative statement of Split the most significant nibble of the second byte of the ATQA in Table into individual RFU bits. Clarified in the last sentence of the informative text in section that this specification only includes the technology specific collision detection procedures. Moved the value of tnn in the PICC column of Table to the centre. Revision Log Version EMV Contactless Book D Contactless Comm Protocol Page iv March 2016 2016 EMVCo, LLC.

7 All rights reserved. Reproduction, distribution and other use of this document is permitted only pursuant to the applicable agreement between the user and EMVCo found at EMV is a registered trademark or trademark of EMVCo, LLC in the United States and other countries. EMV Contactless Book D Contactless Comm Protocol March 2016 Page v 2016 EMVCo, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction, distribution and other use of this document is permitted only pursuant to the applicable agreement between the user and EMVCo found at EMV is a registered trademark or trademark of EMVCo, LLC in the United States and other countries.

8 Contents 1 General .. 1 Scope and Audience .. 1 Volumes of the Contactless Specifications .. 1 Related Information .. 2 Normative References .. 2 Acknowledgment .. 3 Definitions .. 4 Notational Conventions .. 6 Abbreviations .. 6 Notations .. 9 Terminology and Conventions .. 10 Reserved for Future Use (RFU) .. 11 2 Introduction .. 13 Contactless System .. 13 EMV Contactless Level 1 Test Equipment .. 14 EMV TEST PCD .. 15 EMV TEST 16 EMV TEST PICC .. 17 Landing Plane .. 18 Operating Volume .. 18 Overview .. 20 3 Radio Frequency Power and Signal Interface.

9 23 Introduction .. 23 Transmission and Reception Requirements .. 23 EMV Contactless Level 1 Test Equipment .. 24 Function Properly .. 25 Summary .. 26 RF Power .. 27 PCD Requirements for Power Transfer PCD to PICC .. 28 PICC Requirements for Power Transfer PCD to PICC .. 29 Influence of the PICC on the Operating Field .. 30 PCD Requirement for the Carrier Frequency fc .. 32 PICC Requirement for the Carrier Frequency fS,c .. 33 PCD Requirements for Resetting the Operating Field .. 34 PICC Requirements for Power-off .. 35 Contents EMV Contactless Book D Contactless Comm Protocol Page vi March 2016 2016 EMVCo, LLC.

10 All rights reserved. Reproduction, distribution and other use of this document is permitted only pursuant to the applicable agreement between the user and EMVCo found at EMV is a registered trademark or trademark of EMVCo, LLC in the United States and other countries. PICC Requirements for Power-on .. 37 PCD Requirements for Power-off of the Operating Field .. 38 Signal Interface PCD to PICC .. 39 Introduction .. 39 PCD Requirements for Modulation PCD to PICC Type A .. 40 PICC Requirements for Modulation PCD to PICC Type A .. 43 PCD Requirements for Modulation PCD to PICC Type B.