Smart Card Age

Published:2010/7/13 19:39:00 Author:Michelle From:SeekIC

With the development of our society, the concept of intelligence has come to our minds. When you go to bank to withdraw cash or to transfer your accounts, credit cards are available; when you go to the hotel to open your door, an electronical card is on your hands; when you are talking to others with a cellphone, the tiny chip that is attached to the phone plays an important role. Those all above are contributed to the development of a dispensable part, that is the smart card.

A smart card is a device that includes an embedded integrated circuit chip. It has two broad kinds: memory cards and microprocessor cards. The chip can be used as a secure microcontroller. equivalent intelligence with internal memory or a memory chip alone. With the minimization of our society, the smart card manufacturing industry has becoming a growing and promising industry. It has found its way in a wide range utilizations like credit cards, memory cards, mobile phones and computers. The idea was first promoted in France and then, in the late 20th century, it was put into a large scale production. It is now forging ahead with a new looking.

A smart card includes all the information needed of yours. For example, a bank credit card, which contains your name, ID number, your account and other information. Therefore, it will enable you to withdraw or deposit easily and you can also do those things from different banks without carrying large sums of money as well. So, it facilitates people’s lives on a large scale.

Apart form that, another priority of the smart card is its security and portability. As all the information is included in it, it is much smaller and more convenient for carrying. With the increasing need for enhanced privacy, the structure of the smart card has becoming more complex. Because the card itself contains a CPU and some non-volatile storage, there are a lot of changes from the previous forms. So far, there has two fundamental structures which are contact form and contactless ones. As a result, people can choose from them according to their own choice.

Today, smart card has become ubiquitous in our life. Our pocket will be packed with numerous kinds of cards. Besides, for each card you can set a code so that your card will be ensured even if a thief steals it. The thief can not see your information without the ID card. From now on, smart cards will be seen in a larger sphere and will open up a brand new age for an easy life. Related IC for smart card is:2SD2526 .

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