ATMI's Emosyn Unit Offers "Radical" Smart Card Development Environment.DANBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 1998--Emosyn, the fabless smart card venture of ATMI ATMI American Textile Manufacturers Institute ATMI Association for Technology in Music Instruction ATMI Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. ATMI Application-to-Transaction Manager Interface ATMI According to My Information ATMI Atm Interface Unit , Inc. (Nasdaq:ATMI), today announced its Rania(TM) Rapid Development Environment - a radical new approach to smart card solutions that can help streamline development cycles for smart card chips while allowing smart card developers to continually define, refine, and enhance smart card programs. The Rania Rapid Development Environment is a set of low-cost software development tools for smart cards Example of widely used contactless smart cards are Hong Kong's Octopus card, Paris' Calypso/Navigo card and Lisbon' LisboaViva card, which predate the ISO/IEC 14443 standard. The following tables list smart cards used for public transportation and other electronic purse applications. that take application development to new levels of efficiency. The Rania Environment offers a suite of development tools - Simulation, Hardware Acceleration In computing, hardware acceleration is the use of hardware to perform some function faster than is possible in software running on the normal (general purpose) CPU. Examples of hardware acceleration include blitting acceleration functionality in graphics processing units (GPUs) and , and Instrumentation - designed to eliminate the need for extensive silicon-based testing. Compared with traditional smart card application development and authentication methods, the Rania Rapid Development Environment provides: -- Real-time software and hardware testing with the Rania Simulator and Hardware Accelerator. -- Extensive code efficiency testing and coverage analysis. -- Rapid time-to-market - programming changes with the Rania Environment are fast and easy. -- Simple version tracking and document control, fully integrated into th "ORGA, as smart card industry founders, contin secure procedures." Grahame Lucas, Emosyoftware proving - limits the available markets fs can be treated as controllable objects througapid Development Environment is expected to be followed next year by Emosyn's emerging family of Theseus(TM) smart card IC's, developed with EM Microelectronic. The Theseus architecture extends the existing technologies for density, speed, power, and memory partitioning. The Rania(TM) Rapid Development Environment is available to smart card manufacturers at US $750 (single user license) for the simulator module, and $3000 for the hardware accelerator module. A smart card is a computer in a credit card. Incorporating similar logic, memory, and programming circuitry, these integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. are able to compute, process, store, and recognize information in a secure, highly portable package. Multifunctional ultra low-power circuit design and fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. are regarded as key strategic factors for success in this fast growing market. Emosyn, an ATMI Venture, is a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. , focusing on smart card integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for devices. 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