Flash-based Smart Card ICs facilitate software design.
Press Release Summary:
Emosyn Theseus smart card ICs offer 100% user-configurable memory (UCM) with various security peripherals. Delivering design flexibility, devices utilize single-size, 256-byte UCM page to store code and simplify software development. UCM page can also store SMS messages, phone book entries, and other data. Able to achieve loading speeds over 115 Kbps, encrypted bootloader protects against code theft during production programming of smart card OS.
Original Press Release:
SST's New Flash-based Smart Card IC Product Line Simplifies SIM and 3G USIM Software Design
Emosyn Theseus Titanium Smart Card ICs Offer a High-Security, Low-Cost, Fast Time-to-Market Solution; New Theseus Simulator Enables Seamless Development Tool Integration
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 19 / -- SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:SSTI)), a leader in flash memory technology, today introduced a new product line to the successful Emosyn Theseus smart card IC family. The flash-memory based Emosyn Theseus Titanium product line offers smart card developers a 100 percent User-Configurable Memory (UCM) with a variety of security peripherals. Offering a smart card IC solution based completely on UCM technology provides developers with greater design flexibility, faster time to market and a higher level of security. The optimizations made to the Emosyn Theseus Titanium smart card IC product line, which include several security and ease of use features, make it an ideal solution for high-volume mobile communications SIM card and 3G USIM card markets.
Theseus Titanium devices utilize a 256-byte UCM page to store both code and data, enabling smart card developers to choose the dividing line between code and data storage. By having a single UCM page size, the memory handling in Theseus Titanium devices is made much simpler for the smart card software developer. The 256-byte UCM page also allows the ability to store SMS messages and phone book entries along with other miscellaneous data.
A High-Security Smart Card Solution
The Emosyn Theseus Titanium product line offers customers several easy-to- use, high-security features that make it a superior solution compared with competitive products. UCM technology provides customers with greater security by completely eliminating physical memory security risks. Unlike competitive ROM-based solutions, the use of UCM technology within the Emosyn Theseus Titanium devices eliminate the risk of reverse engineering and the threat of the smart card's physical memory being read.
Several other security attributes in the smart card IC devices make it ideal for SIM- and 3G USIM-based applications. Developers are capable of locking certain pages in the Theseus Titanium's operating system in order to prevent writing, erasing and data fetch (read) operations. In addition, the devices offer an encrypted bootloader, providing excellent protection against code theft during production programming of the smart card operating system. The Theseus Titanium's advanced bootloader is capable of achieving loading speeds of more than 115 KByte/s.
"The flash memory-based Emosyn Theseus Titanium product line represents a significant advancement in smart card technology," said Richard Morley, senior director smart card IC business, SST. "Leveraging our expertise in both flash and smart card ICs, we are delivering a solution that solves two big concerns for smart card developers: security and time to market."
Seamless Development Tool Integration
Emosyn Theseus Titanium devices feature the newly developed Theseus Simulator that integrates into the industry standard Keil development environment. The Theseus Simulator provides an ideal hardware interface for programming Theseus Titanium smart cards. The Theseus Simulator offers a superior scripting tool for test and verification and is able to extract exact logical and timing information of the target device.
Ideal Low-Cost Solution for High-Volume Applications
Emosyn Theseus Titanium smart card IC devices provide customers with a low-cost solution by shortening product development time and lowering inventory costs. With its third-generation smart card product line, Emosyn enables code developers the ability to program trial cards instantly, reducing the time needed to develop smart-card applications by months. Production volume delivery times are shortened because the devices can be in the card manufacturer's factory awaiting code completion. Once the code is approved, card manufacturers can provide samples to customers immediately. Theseus Titanium devices are also capable of being used in multiple projects, providing a purchasing volume cost advantage.
Pricing and Availability
The Emosyn Theseus Titanium smart card IC product line features five flash-based versions ranging in densities from 30 KBytes to 230 KBytes. The Theseus Titanium 30 and Theseus Titanium 80 are available now in volume production. Pricing for the Theseus Titanium 30 devices starts at $0.37 and pricing for the Theseus Titanium 80 devices starts at $0.57, both in 100K-unit quantities. For additional information about product availability, contact SST at www.sst.com/ .
About Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, SST designs, manufactures and markets a diversified range of nonvolatile memory solutions, based on proprietary, patented NOR type SuperFlash technology, for high volume applications in the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and Internet computing markets. SST's product families include various densities of high functionality flash memory components, flash mass storage products and flash microcontrollers. SST also offers its SuperFlash technology for embedded applications through its broad network of world-class manufacturing partners and technology licensees, including TSMC, which offers it under its trademark Emb-FLASH. Further information on SST can be found on the company's Web site at www.sst.com/ .
For more information about SST and the company's comprehensive list of product offerings, please call 1-888-SST-CHIP. Information can also be requested via email to literature@sst.com or through SST's Web site at www.sst.com/. SST's head office is located at 1171 Sonora Court, Sunnyvale, Calif.; telephone: 408/735-9110; fax: 408/735-9036.
NOTE: The SST logo and SuperFlash are registered trademarks of Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. Emb-FLASH is a trademark of TSMC. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
For More Information Contact:
Stephen T. Johnston
Emosyn Europe
+44 (0) 1993 700 327
sjohnston@sst.com
