Title :
A new contactless smartcard IC using an on-chip antenna and an asynchronous micro-controller
Author :
Abrial, A. ; Bouvier, J. ; Senn, P. ; Renaudin, M. ; Vivet, P.
Author_Institution :
France-Telecom R&D, Meylan, France
Abstract :
A new generation of Contactless Smartcard Chip is described. The Contactless Smartcard Chip integrates an on-chip coil connected to a power reception system and an emitter/receiver module compatible with the ISO 14443 standard, together with an asynchronous Quasi Delay Insensitive (QDI) 8-bit micro-controller. Beyond the contactless smartcard application field, this new chip demonstrates that System-on-Chip integrating power reception and management, radio-frequency communication and signal processing are feasible. The chip associates analog/digital parts as well as synchronous/asynchronous logics and has been fabricated in a CMOS 6 metal layers .25µm technology from STMicroelectronics.
Keywords :
CMOS logic circuits; Coils; Delay; Energy management; ISO standards; Power system management; Radio frequency; Radio spectrum management; Signal processing; System-on-a-chip;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2000. ESSCIRC '00. Proceedings of the 26rd European
Conference_Location :
Stockholm, Sweden
