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News Release from: Silicon Storage Technology | Subject: Theseus Platinum 50 and Theseus Platinum 62
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 May 2003
Smart card MCUs aim for SIM slots
Emosyn has added two new members to its second-generation smart card microcontroller range, Theseus Platinum 50 and Theseus Platinum 62.
Emosyn has added two new members to its second-generation smart card microcontroller range, Theseus Platinum 50 and Theseus Platinum 62 Aimed at volume subscriber identification module (SIM), banking, and identification (ID) applications, the Theseus Platinum family delivers greater flexibility, more performance, and higher security than other smart card microcontrollers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 13 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Theseus Platinum 40 is already being used successfully in 16Kbyte SIM products and volume ID applications - and is being tested in EMV (Europay-Mastercard-Visa) markets.
Theseus Platinum 50 targets existing SIM and smart card segments.
Theseus Platinum 62 provides greater flexibility to smart card manufacturers seeking to provide more cost-effective high-end 32Kbyte SIMs.
"Emosyn's Theseus Platinum architecture allows software developers the flexibility to assign any part of the nonvolatile memory as code, variable data, or user data", said Arthur Prentice, Emosyn's Smart Card Marketing Manager.
"Our unique design extends the cost and performance advantages of Emosyn's core Flash memory competence, providing customers with faster time to market, lower inventory costs, and greater program security".
The Theseus Platinum 62 is the third product released in five months, proving the effectiveness of Emosyn's modular design approach.
With several different memory capacities already available - and more to follow in 2003 - Emosyn offers these fully-featured chips in configurations to suit any smart card application - from high security ID cards to high-end SIMs for wireless communications and complex multi-application cards.
Equipped with the fastest available smart card microprocessor, Emosyn's technology dispenses with the problems associated with key program code stored in mask ROM and enables rapid application development.
Using Emosyn's suite of Rania development tools, software can be developed and tested immediately on actual silicon.
This enables sample cards to be delivered instantly, and final production batches to be tailored to match fluctuating demand.
Changes to software can be implemented immediately, without inventory risks.
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