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Atmel Adds Full-speed Usb To Market-leading AT90SC Avr®-based Secure Microcontrollers Targeted at next generation of secure e-commerce applications
SAN JOSE, CA, October 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. Its full-speed USB
interface (12M bps) gives it a direct high-speed connection to any PC or Internet
appliance, 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.
Hervé 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 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 8-bit RISC
processor, with 64K bytes of on- chip Flash memory, and 64K bytes of EEPROM.
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.
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also a leading provider of system- level integration semiconductor solutions using
advanced CMOS, BiCMOS, bipolar and SiGe process technologies.
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Atmel Contacts:
Hervé Roche, Marketing Manager for Internet Transactions, e-mail
hroche@atmel.com, Tel: +33 442 53 68 96
Peter Bishop, Communications Manager, Atmel Rousset, e-mail
pbishop@atmel.com, Tel: +33 442 53 61 50
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