Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Renesas Technology Europe | Subject: RS45C
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 March 2008
MCU brings more processing power to
smart cards
Secure smart card microcontroller has a CPU core with a performance approximately five-times that of previous Renesas Technology products.
Renesas Technology Europe has released details of the RS45C, a secure MCU for smart cards requiring a high level of security such as ID, banking and credit cards The RS45C is built around the RS-4 high-performance 16bit CPU core and integrates 36Kbyte of electrically erasable and programmable read-only memory (EEPROM)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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