Security experts at Infineon made a breakthrough in this area by implementing a post-quantum key exchange scheme on the commercially available contactless smart card chip. Key exchange schemes are ...

All microcontroller-based smart card devices also require SRAM (Static Random Access Memory), which is very fast and is used to store temporary data. SRAM is a volatile form of memory because the ...

The AE41R is a member of the AE-4 Series incorporating a smart card microcontroller oriented AE-4 CPU core, and it includes an interface compliant with the ISO 14443 Type-B standard that is well ...

Smart ICs and the need for low power Legacy contact smart card IC technologies have been instrumental in the development of the contactless and dual-interface electronic government ID and payment card ...

However, the smart card contains a microcontroller that can provide authentication, encryption and financial processing, whereas RFID tags generally store only identification data.

While most smart-card microcontrollers rely on a combination of fixed ROM and EEPROM to store information, the EMTCG96-3G uses a flash memory architecture that is 100% reprogrammable.

Highlights in the research point to more than 132 million smart card microcontrollers shipped to the North American market this year, followed by a compounded annual percentage rate increase of 27 ...

With an embedded microcontroller, STA notes, “smart cards have the unique ability to store large amounts of data, carry out their own on-card functions (e.g., encryption and mutual authentication) and ...

Suitable for SIM and Java cards in GSM phones, the EMTCG256-3G smart card IC pairs 256 KB of flash memory with an 8-bit 8051 microcontroller core. Compatible with the ISO7816- ...

San Jose , CA, June 21, 2005 - Aplus Flash Technology, a leader in nonvolatile memory, and Unicore Microsystems LLC, a fabless Russian design house, have entered into production of Unicore's smart ...

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands-- (BUSINESS WIRE)--October 27, 2008--NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, will launch its state-of-the art microcontroller smart card IC ...