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To: John F Beule who wrote (221)	3/17/2000 3:11:00 PM
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Motorola readies Java-based smart card By Margaret Quan EE Times (03/17/00, 2:39 p.m. EST) NEW YORK ? Motorola Inc. will begin shipping a smart-card platform next week that will support multiple applications. Now in trial usage at the Technical University of Berlin, the M-Smart Jupiter platform can provide access to online services and automatically collect transit fares. The platform comes with a smart card, plus an applications development environment and other software. Motorola's Worldwide SmartCard Solutions Division (Rolling Meadows, Ill.) calls M-Smart Jupiter the first 32-bit card to support the JavaCard 2.1 specification. The card uses an ARM7-class processor and both the JavaCard 2.1 and Visa Platform 2.0 APIs. Students at the Technical University of Berlin are using it in trials to access campus buildings and Internet services, and for automated fare collection in the Berlin transit system. For the latter application, a Motorola Mercury ASIC is embedded on the card. Memory to double Motorola will expand its JavaCard line later this year with a new version of the Mercury ASIC and the Jupiter card. The next Jupiter will double the amount of on-board EEPROM to make room for handling more applications. The card currently uses 16k of EEPROM, 3k of RAM and 48k of ROM. The next-generation chip will have 32k of EEPROM and 64k of ROM. RAM will remain at 3k. Separately, Motorola plans to upgrade its existing Venus smart card in May, replacing a processor from STMicroelectronics with a high-speed chip from Thomson Microelectronics. The product, called an electronic purse, is designed for e-commerce applications, and will be capable of conducting transactions in under 150 milliseconds, said Mario DiPrizio, director of engineering and product development at Motorola's smart-cards division. Motorola will also release its Java Application Development Environment (Jade) tools along with the M-Smart Jupiter card next week. The tools help developers create, test and debug smart-card applications. In addition, the company is providing applets and middleware with the cards, including support for RSA Laboratories' PKCS-11 and PKCS-15 cryptographic standards.