ARM for the smart card field new processor SC000

ARM company (LSE: ARM, Nasdaq: ARMH) held in Hong Kong Asia smart card industry Conference (Cartes-Asia) announced the launch of highly compact, energy-saving ARM ® SecurCore ™ SC000 ™ processor, the processor designed for maximum capacity of smart card and embedded security applications.

SC000 processor is already a great success of ARM SecurCore series processors up to new members, the processor significantly extends the scope of the target application, the SIM card, the Government, banking, transportation, ID and conditional access and other required tamper contact and contactless smart card applications. SC000 to competitive 8/16 bit cost, size and power consumption provides unprecedented wealth of 32-bit performance, is the maximum capacity of the smart card market next generation equipment.

With the widespread support and the great success of the SC100 ™ and SC300 ™ processor, SecurCore SC000 processor takes full advantage of ARM in the safe handling of experience and leadership.

SecurCore SC100 and SC300 processor has been more than 15 multiple vendors authorized access, including aitemeier (Atmel), NXP (NXP), Samsung (Samsung), STMicrolectronics (STMicroelectronics) and Toshiba (Toshiba), etc. At the same time, based on these two processor products account for the 2009 global 32-bit smart card shipments over 50% of the total.

In 2009, the smart card market shipments exceeding 40 billion; it is estimated that the market in the next 5-year compound annual growth rate will reach 10%.

In addition, independent study shows that, due to the existing 8/16 bit traditional solutions are difficult to meet the new generation of smart cards in functionality, performance and energy efficiency requirements, 32-bit security processor market is making significant growth.

Due to this press release to date, five around the world the intelligent card trade chip suppliers, there are 4 authorization obtained SC000 processor or it used by ARMv6M schema to help these companies design the next generation of security chip to meet the needs of the global smart card market.

In addition there are a number of chip manufacturers are negotiating with the ARM, to discuss the empowered SC000 processor. The chip based SC000 processor is expected to begin in 2011 quantities.

STMicrolectronics security microcontroller products division General Manager Marie-France Florentin stated: "we believe that ARM SecurCore SC000 processor will advance the next generation of secure smart card chip was born, with 32-bit high-performance and low power consumption, especially for contactless applications, such as Government and ID, Bank and versatile application.

ARM SecurCore SC000 high performance and STMicrolectronics's 90nm e-Flash advanced combination of smart card technology, as well as our outstanding in the field of security expertise, will be our next-generation security smart card chip development of important wealth. ”

Devices and the cost of consolidation is the global smart card market key drivers.

Government and transport sectors, security and cost consciousness, will contribute to low-power, full-featured smart card applications. SecurCore SC000 's ARM as the industry standard secure 32-bit platform, not only to better meet these needs, but also enables OEMs and chip suppliers focus on increasing product value.

ARM processor sector marketing company Vice President Eric Schorn said, "the smart card is being used more and more widely used, but they have different system requirements and price; at the same time, in order to reduce the cost and time to market, the industry also requires standardization.

Configurability high SC000 processor because of its unprecedented small size, low costs and low power perfectly meets these requirements. ”

SecurCore SC000 processor will ARM processor has proven excellence in safety performance and Cortex-M0 processor combines leading-edge technology.

Compared with the SC100, SC000 to 1/3 of the size and 3 times the energy efficiency, provide the same performance. SC000 processor low power consumption, making it a non-contact type and NFC applications the ideal choice.

SC000 processors possess highly configurable feature lets suppliers will be able to easily for different smart card application design for a variety of security devices, while maintaining and high-end SC300 processor compatibility for easy to higher levels of performance and security application of transplantation.

SC000 software development by the company's ARM Keil microcontroller Development Kit (MDK) to provide support.

MDK is the smart card field most widely used tool chain, through high-quality development and debugging capabilities, and global smart card software development are familiar interface, you can easily design ported to SC000 processor.