Atmel Extends its secureAVR Product Family for Banking Card Applications
Atmel Corporation announced today the introduction of its new AT90SC16018RU secure microcontroller to extend its product offering for banking card applications
Based on Atmel's optimized 8-/16-bit RISC secureAVR® CPU architecture, the AT90SC16018RU features on-chip high density, well-tailored memories: 16 Kbytes of EEPROM, 160 Kbytes of user-ROM, and 4 Kbytes of RAM. This product has been designed to meet the security standards of Common Criteria EAL5+ and EMVCo. It shares the same common features with Atmel's secureAVR family including dedicated hardware for protection against SPA/DPA/SEMA/DEMA attacks as well as advanced protection against physical attacks.
Herve Roche, Atmel's Banking and Telecom Marketing Manager stated, "The introduction of this new device perfectly completes Atmel product portfolio and reinforces Atmel's commitment to serve all the contact based products for banking market. We strongly believe that this new product will help our customers to develop innovative Operating Systems and application codes to serve in long term a cost sensitive market requiring more and more security."
Availability and Pricing
AT90SC16018RU samples are available now. Volume production will start in Q1 2009. Prices start at US$ 0.60 for 10k units.
From: http://www.atmel.com
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