+static int waitCmd(uint8_t iLen);
+
+// structure and database for uid -> tagtype lookups
+typedef struct {
+ uint8_t uid;
+ char* desc;
+} manufactureName;
+
+static const manufactureName manufactureMapping[] = {
+ // ID, "Vendor Country"
+ { 0x01, "Motorola UK" },
+ { 0x02, "ST Microelectronics SA France" },
+ { 0x03, "Hitachi, Ltd Japan" },
+ { 0x04, "NXP Semiconductors Germany" },
+ { 0x05, "Infineon Technologies AG Germany" },
+ { 0x06, "Cylink USA" },
+ { 0x07, "Texas Instrument France" },
+ { 0x08, "Fujitsu Limited Japan" },
+ { 0x09, "Matsushita Electronics Corporation, Semiconductor Company Japan" },
+ { 0x0A, "NEC Japan" },
+ { 0x0B, "Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd Japan" },
+ { 0x0C, "Toshiba Corp. Japan" },
+ { 0x0D, "Mitsubishi Electric Corp. Japan" },
+ { 0x0E, "Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd Korea" },
+ { 0x0F, "Hynix / Hyundai, Korea" },
+ { 0x10, "LG-Semiconductors Co. Ltd Korea" },
+ { 0x11, "Emosyn-EM Microelectronics USA" },
+ { 0x12, "INSIDE Technology France" },
+ { 0x13, "ORGA Kartensysteme GmbH Germany" },
+ { 0x14, "SHARP Corporation Japan" },
+ { 0x15, "ATMEL France" },
+ { 0x16, "EM Microelectronic-Marin SA Switzerland" },
+ { 0x17, "KSW Microtec GmbH Germany" },
+ { 0x18, "ZMD AG Germany" },
+ { 0x19, "XICOR, Inc. USA" },
+ { 0x1A, "Sony Corporation Japan Identifier Company Country" },
+ { 0x1B, "Malaysia Microelectronic Solutions Sdn. Bhd Malaysia" },
+ { 0x1C, "Emosyn USA" },
+ { 0x1D, "Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Co. Ltd. P.R. China" },
+ { 0x1E, "Magellan Technology Pty Limited Australia" },
+ { 0x1F, "Melexis NV BO Switzerland" },
+ { 0x20, "Renesas Technology Corp. Japan" },
+ { 0x21, "TAGSYS France" },
+ { 0x22, "Transcore USA" },
+ { 0x23, "Shanghai belling corp., ltd. China" },
+ { 0x24, "Masktech Germany Gmbh Germany" },
+ { 0x25, "Innovision Research and Technology Plc UK" },
+ { 0x26, "Hitachi ULSI Systems Co., Ltd. Japan" },
+ { 0x27, "Cypak AB Sweden" },
+ { 0x28, "Ricoh Japan" },
+ { 0x29, "ASK France" },
+ { 0x2A, "Unicore Microsystems, LLC Russian Federation" },
+ { 0x2B, "Dallas Semiconductor/Maxim USA" },
+ { 0x2C, "Impinj, Inc. USA" },
+ { 0x2D, "RightPlug Alliance USA" },
+ { 0x2E, "Broadcom Corporation USA" },
+ { 0x2F, "MStar Semiconductor, Inc Taiwan, ROC" },
+ { 0x30, "BeeDar Technology Inc. USA" },
+ { 0x31, "RFIDsec Denmark" },
+ { 0x32, "Schweizer Electronic AG Germany" },
+ { 0x33, "AMIC Technology Corp Taiwan" },
+ { 0x34, "Mikron JSC Russia" },
+ { 0x35, "Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems Germany" },
+ { 0x36, "IDS Microchip AG Switzerland" },
+ { 0x37, "Kovio USA" },
+ { 0x38, "HMT Microelectronic Ltd Switzerland Identifier Company Country" },
+ { 0x39, "Silicon Craft Technology Thailand" },
+ { 0x3A, "Advanced Film Device Inc. Japan" },
+ { 0x3B, "Nitecrest Ltd UK" },
+ { 0x3C, "Verayo Inc. USA" },
+ { 0x3D, "HID Global USA" },
+ { 0x3E, "Productivity Engineering Gmbh Germany" },
+ { 0x3F, "Austriamicrosystems AG (reserved) Austria" },
+ { 0x40, "Gemalto SA France" },
+ { 0x41, "Renesas Electronics Corporation Japan" },
+ { 0x42, "3Alogics Inc Korea" },
+ { 0x43, "Top TroniQ Asia Limited Hong Kong" },
+ { 0x44, "Gentag Inc (USA) USA" },
+ { 0x00, "no tag-info available" } // must be the last entry
+};
+
+// get a product description based on the UID
+// uid[8] tag uid
+// returns description of the best match
+char* getTagInfo(uint8_t uid) {
+
+ int i;
+ int len = sizeof(manufactureMapping) / sizeof(manufactureName);
+
+ for ( i = 0; i < len; ++i )
+ if ( uid == manufactureMapping[i].uid)
+ return manufactureMapping[i].desc;
+
+ //No match, return default
+ return manufactureMapping[len-1].desc;
+}