Libnfc is a library for near field communication. it abstracts the low-level details of communicating with the devices away behind an easy-to-use high-level api. it supports most hardware based on the nxp pn531, pn532 or pn533 controller chips.

some pn53x-only examples are provided with libnfc for debugging and/or educational purposes (pn53x-sam, pn53x-tamashell, etc.).