Product category:
Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Atmel Corporation | Subject: AT90SC256144RCFT
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 November 2006
MCU secures a slot in the smartcard
market
Dual-interface secure microcontroller is tailored to efficiently serve the high-end electronic identity markets.
Atmel Corp has announced the introduction of its new AT90SC256144RCFT, a dual-interface secure microcontroller tailored to efficiently serve the high-end electronic identity markets The AT90SC256144RCFT is a dual-interface contact (ISO7816) and contactless (ISO/IEC14443) smartcard chip that is compliant with the new International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) specifications for e-passports
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 14 Sep 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Microcontroller meets ePassport requirements
Atmel's AT90SC256144RCFT secure microcontroller has been independently certified as complying with the standards for ePassport use.
Touch controller runs buttons and sliders
Ideal for use as a multimedia HMI controller in mobile phones, where it saves space, minimises design time and allows the designer creative flexibility in laying out control keys.
Tiny power manager integrates four LDOs
Designers can connect the application supply directly to the AT73C237, increasing the level of analogue integration while minimising BOM cost and product size
This product has been designed to meet common criteria EAL5+ security certification (BSI protection profile).
The AT90SC256144RCFT features 144Kbyte of data EEPROM, 256Kbyte of program ROM, an additional 32Kbyte of ROM for crypto library and 8Kbyte of RAM.
Its large EEPROM nonvolatile memory provides sufficient capacity to allow large data storage such as ten fingertip images of the passport holder (around 10Kbyte per image), leaving enough space for other data (photo holder, encryption keys etc).
The ROM and RAM sizes, combined with the computing power of the secureAVR architecture, make this chip perfectly suited for JavaCard implementation.
John Bryant, Vice President of Marketing commented: "We strongly believe that the AT90SC256144RCFT product will bring significant value to this market by improving the speed during the control of personal identity as well as the security and privacy of e-ID bearers".
The AT90SC256144RCFT shares the same common features with Atmel's secureAVR family including its outstanding 8/16bit RISC core, strong security mechanisms, a power-analysis attack-resistant DES/TripleDES engine, as well as Atmel's AdvX crypto-accelerator for an optimised trade-off between performance and power consumption.
Thanks to its high performance, it allows extremely fast extended access control implementations.
This product can be delivered with on-chip tuning capacitance options, ranging from 20 to 100pF, to cope with different antenna technologies.
AT90SC256144RCFT samples are available now.
Production will start in Q1 of 2007.
• Atmel Corporation: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Electronicstalk email newsletter
• Electronicstalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
