Agreement ensures support RFID tag family

Atmel Corp and SkyeTek have entered into a technology partnership.

Atmel Corp and SkyeTek have entered into a technology partnership.

The combination of Atmel's CryptoRF advanced cryptographic RF circuits and SkyeTek's AURA advanced universal reader architecture will give customers one of the highest performing, most secure HF reader/tag platforms available in the market.

"We selected SkyeTek because the company's advanced universal reader architecture is a tremendous complement to our secure RFID semiconductor technology", stated Kerry Maletsky, Crypto Products Business Unit Director, Atmel.

"The combination of CryptoRF and AURA will allow Atmel to offer its customers the optimum combination of security, performance, and investment protection that is at least one generation ahead of the current HF marketplace".

The partnership between Atmel and SkyeTek will provide customers with an ultrasecure option for embedded RFID applications.

Resulting solutions leverage CryptoRF's security features and the enterprise-class reliability and price-performance of the SkyeTek ReaderDNA and ReaderWare technology.

This combination will provide customers with the ability to adapt RFID technology into existing applications and is well positioned to provide valuable solutions addressing ePedigree, patient safety, consumables authentication, item-level inventory management, and ticketing.

SkyeTek's ReaderWare also provides the capability to upgrade the reader to support future tags, protocols, and cryptography via a firmware upgrade.

"Security and privacy have emerged as major factors in RFID adoption", said Rob Balgley, CEO of SkyeTek.

"As a result, customers evaluating RFID-enabled applications today are looking beyond existing HF technology for a solution that is capable of meeting the critical needs of enterprise and Internet class applications".

"The solutions jointly developed by Atmel and SkyeTek as a result of this partnership will ensure that customers will be able to meet the IT industry's most stringent security standards without sacrificing performance".

The agreement ensures support for Atmel's CryptoRF tag family in SkyeTek's advanced universal reader architecture as well as an upgrade of SkyeTek's ReaderWare and ReaderDNA, the key components of AURA, optimised around Atmel silicon.

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