News Release from: ARM
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 8 July 2004

Secure cores provide extra-smart cards

Toppan Printing Co, the world's second largest printing company, has developed an IC card with high-speed cryptographic processing capabilities using ARM SecurCore microprocessors.

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Toppan Printing Co, the world's second largest printing company, has developed an IC card with high-speed cryptographic processing capabilities using ARM SecurCore microprocessors. Toppan's IC card is ideal for SIM cards for mobile phones, and fits with government and corporate ID cards where supporting biometric authentication is essential. The Toppan IC card takes full advantage of the 32bit RISC ARM SecurCore processing power for number crunching operations such as encryption or biometrics match-on-card algorithms.

The SecurCore processors include tamper-resistant technology to help prevent against unauthorised intrusion and physical tampering at the hardware and software levels.

"Toppan is using ARM's market-leading technology to offer a fast and secure IC card to the high-end security market", said Tomo Togawa, General Manager, IC Business Division of IC R and D Department at Toppan Printing Co.

"We believe our card offers all the features that customers - whether they are governments or corporations - require to protect their highly valued assets".

Although most IC cards to date have used 8 and 16bit microcomputer solutions, demand is increasing for cards that efficiently support more complex transactions with greater security to protect an ever-increasing amount of data.

This is making 32bit IC cards that can encrypt, create signatures, perform biometrics algorithms, and support the Java Card platform - quickly and securely with minimal power consumption - essential.

"Toppan's IC card, which is the first smart card developed in Japan that integrates SecurCore technology, is an excellent example of how ARM is expanding its presence in the rapidly growing smart card market", said Hiroyuki Uchimura, Managing Director, ARM KK.

"ARM is committed to developing secure processing solutions, from our Trustzone technology to our SecurCore microprocessors, which enable our partners to address a full range of security issues for their applications".

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