Smart Card Reader ICs

Atmel® offers a family of products dedicated to advanced smart card readers. Designed in partnership with key-players in the smart card reader market, these one-chip solutions address any application using a serial, USB or PCMCIA smart card reader, including keyboards, set top boxes, PDAs, POS, mobile phones and energy meters.

All devices include a DC/DC converter to power different type of smart card and feature low consumption modes that help designing nomad applications. The C51-based microcontrollers are available in different versions with serial interface or USB interface and feature different memory configurations from Flash-RAM (for development purpose) to ROM (for volume production).

Atmel chips allow designers to significantly reduce external component need, thus achieving a high-level system integration for smart card reader applications.