Atmel Adds Full-Speed USB to Market-Leading AT90SC AVR-Based Secure Microcontrollers; Targeted At Next Generation of Secure E-commerce Applications.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2000 Atmel Corporation today announced that it is sampling the AT90SC6464C-USB, the latest in its market-leading AT90SC family of AVR-based secure Flash microcontrollers 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. . Its full-speed USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. interface (12M bps) gives it a direct high-speed connection to any PC or Internet appliance Also called "information appliance," "smart appliance," and "Web appliance," it is a device specialized for accessing the Web and/or e-mail. Designed for ease of use, it plugs into a telephone jack or LAN connection for Internet hookup. , making it ideal for a wide range of secure e-commerce applications. These include electronic signature, user authentification, transfers of large amounts of secure data, high-security financial transactions and access keys for secure software. Herve Roche, Atmel's Marketing Manager for Internet Transaction ICs, commented, "USB is a likely standard for next-generation Smart Card ICs. It gives us a Smart Card with a low-cost plug-and-play interface to any PC or Internet appliance. The AT90SC6464C-USB has a dual-USB/ISO 7816 external interface that is automatically configured on insertion into a reader. In this way it remains compatible with the established ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 7816 infrastructure, while opening up all the possibilities of USB interfacing. Transaction times are kept to a minimum thanks to the high data transfer rate over the full-speed USB." Gemplus, the world leader in Smart Card systems, is one of the first customers for the AT90SC6464C-USB. They endorsed the product with the comment from Michel Leduc, Director, Marketing Strategic, "We at Gemplus strongly believe in USB Smart Cards. USB is the perfect protocol for Smart Cards to be integrated in the computer world. Beyond compatibility with the PC standard, USB full-speed communication constitutes a real revolution that will allow new applications to emerge." The AT90SC6464C-USB is built around Atmel's innovative AVR (Automatic Voltage Regulation) See voltage regulator. 8-bit RISC processor, with 64K bytes of on-chip Flash memory, and 64K bytes of EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM) A rewritable memory chip that holds its content without power. Although EEPROMs spawned flash memory, EEPROMs are byte addressable at the write level, whereas flash chips must erase a block of bytes before rewriting. . Flash program memory gives unrivalled flexibility for new applications, with the ability to load or upgrade code during the production run with no delay at all. The large EEPROM data memory enables the device to store enough secure data for complex transactions. The AT90SC6464C-USB includes all the security features already built into the AT90SC series, in particular a crypto co-processor for efficient execution of highest-level encryption algorithms. The AT90SC6464C-USB is now available in engineering samples. Production quantities will be available at a price of US$5.00 in quantities of 200,000 units. ABOUT ATMEL Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. with principal manufacturing facilities in Colorado Springs, Colorado The City of Colorado Springs is the second most populous city (after Denver) in the state of Colorado and the 48th most populous city in the United States.[4] The city is the county seat of El Paso County. ; Irving, Texas; Grenoble, Nantes and Rousset, France; Newcastle, England; and Heilbronn, Germany. Atmel designs, manufactures and markets, on a worldwide basis, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and RF semiconductors. Atmel is also a leading provider of system-level integration semiconductor solutions using advanced CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. , BiCMOS, bipolar and SiGe process technologies. Atmel product and financial information are available from its Fax-on-Demand service. In North America call 800/292-8635 or Internationally, call 408/441-0732. Requests may be made via e-mail to literature@atmel.com or by visiting Atmel's Web site at www.atmel.com. Note to Editors: AVR, Atmel, the Atmel logo and combinations thereof and others contained herein, are trademarks of Atmel Corporation. Terms and product names in this document may be the trademarks of others. |
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