Renesas Technology Europe has introduced the AE41R dedicated contactless smart card microcontroller for use in the payment and ID fields. Enabling lower-cost smart card implementation, the device is ...

Legacy contact smart card IC technologies have been instrumental in the development of the contactless and dual-interface electronic government ID and payment card markets, and are still in use today.

for their 3.3 specifications and Visa 2.0.2 A&C V3.0 specifications to comply with contactless card standards. The solution is available to US banks and banks around the world who issue industry ...

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. This allows all ...

Semiconductor manufacturer Atmel Corp. recently announced its smaller-than-a-dime 13.56 MHz chip reader–billed also as the lowest cost–geared for the handheld reader market. Available for $250, the ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2004--Renesas Technology America, Inc. Featuring High Level Security and Cryptographic Functions in a Large Capacity Flash Memory Card Enables E-Commerce or ...

German smart card provider Multicard has launched a new contactless and dual interface microcontroller application that can combine different high-frequency contactless technologies on a single IC.

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 ISO7816-3 specification, the ...

There are now billions of EMV-enabled cards in the world, but they are not foolproof and can be made more secure through new authentication technologies. In most retailers today, customers don’t swipe ...