DI Josef Preishuber-Pflügl, CTO 

Josef Preishuber-Pflügl is CTO and Business Unit Manager RFID+RFComm of CISC Semiconductor Design+Consulting GmbH.

Starting on 125 kHz reader concepts, Josef Preishuber-Pflügl got involved in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in 1995 with his Master thesis on LF (125 kHz) reader demodulator at Graz University of Technology in Austria. He worked in several areas of RFID engineering and product management for system design, reader, tag and tag ASIC development covering all frequencies of passive RFID.

Currently, he is active participant in several standardization groups in the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC31 area, convener of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC31 WG4/SG6 for RFID performance+conformance. Furthermore, he is project editor for the ISO/IEC 18000-6 and he is also deeply involved in the EPCglobal work. 

Inside CISC, he is building up the BU RFID+RFComm with its major activities in modeling, simulation, design and evaluation of RFID systems and RFID applications for LF, HF and UHF. The major focus in RFID system design is on product support and system design with simulation and measurement tools. This includes a full simulation environment for EPCglobal™ UHF Class 1 Generation 2 based application considering protocol, identification software and detailed RF aspects.