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, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATMI - news), today announced its Rania™ 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 that take application development to new levels of efficiency. The Rania Environment
offers a suite of development tools - Simulation, Hardware Acceleration, 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 the Windows operating
system.
Lower cost of ownership and new market opportunities - maximizes re-use of proven code,
and shrinks production cycles to weeks from months.
Nicholas Wood, Emosyn General Manger, said: ''Emosyn is changing the rules for smart card IC
supply by recognizing software as the crucial component for industry growth. With these low-cost
tools that reduce development time and enhance developer real-time testing and authentication, we
believe the Rania Environment will aid in our customers' success.''
Simon Reed, ORGA's Head of Strategic Marketing, said ''ORGA, as smart card industry founders,
continually looks for solutions that reduce project timescales for our customers, and increases the
potential market for successful smart cards and schemes. Emosyn's approach to creating chips and
development tools, exclusively to address the problems of smart card manufacturers, is a most
welcome addition to the market. The Rania Rapid Development Environment can allow easy
integration of software development into our established secure procedures.''
Grahame Lucas, Emosyn's Director of European Sales, said, ''The Rania Rapid Development
Environment demonstrates how carefully we listen to our customers. The time and cost from concept
to testing - especially software proving - limits the available markets for smart cards. With the Rania
Environment, total cost to develop and introduce new products should drop, and programming
flexibility should rise. The Rania Environment offers the ability to take full advantage of the Theseus
IC architecture being developed in our partnership with EM Microelectronic Marin to target these
problems.''
The Rania Rapid Development Environment runs on Windows 95, 98, NT, and 2000. Simulations
can be treated as controllable objects through object linking and embedding, significantly simplifying
version tracking and documentation. The Rania Environment's Simulator with Instrumentation helps
developers create more accurate and more efficient programs - because they can identify executed
and non-executed code, the number of paths taken, and the memory locations accessed, as well as
test while connected directly to a smart card reader.
Emosyn's Rania™ Rapid Development Environment is expected to be followed next year by
Emosyn's emerging family of Theseus™ smart card IC's, developed with EM Microelectronic. The
Theseus architecture extends the existing technologies for density, speed, power, and memory
partitioning.
The Rania™ 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 are able to compute, process, store, and recognize information in a
secure, highly portable package. Multifunctional ultra low-power circuit design and fabrication are
regarded as key strategic factors for success in this fast growing market. |
