Atmel Targets Contactless Credit Card Markets With Introduction of Industry's secureAVR Microcontroller
The secureAVR 8-/16-bit RISC microcontroller providing 16-bit CPU performance whilst offering state of the art security features is now available as a contactless only product, optimizing performance with smaller die size for price sensitive contactless applications.
Atmel® Corporation announces availability of its new contactless secureAVR™ microcontroller, the AT90SC6404RFT. The secureAVR 8-/16-bit RISC microcontroller providing 16-bit CPU performance whilst offering state of the art security features is now available as a contactless only product, optimizing performance with smaller die size for price sensitive contactless applications.
It is ideally suited to the emerging USA Contactless Card Payment market based on the standard Credit/Debit magnetic stripe profile offerings from “American Express (ExpressPay)”, MasterCard® (PayPass®) and Visa®.
Features include DFA/DPA/SPA resistant, DES/TDES processor, true RNG (Random Number Generator), firewalls, and environmental protections. The AT90SC6404RFT, comprising of 64K ROM, 4K EEPROM and 1.2K RAM is a derivative of the popular AT90SC12872RCFT dual-interface chip targeted at e-Passport and ID applications, but having only a single RF ISO-14443 contactless interface.
The ROM/EEPROM memory sizes provide sufficient capacity to allow additional applications, such as Loyalty or Mass Transit or alternatively as a Physical or Logical Access contactless card.
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