Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: STMicroelectronics | Subject: ST7GEM
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 01 June 2007
MCU is smart choice for card readers
Single-chip microcontroller needs only a few passive external components to become a complete embedded smart-card reader solution.
A single-chip microcontroller for both PC-integrated and freestanding smart-card applications has come out of a partnership agreement between STMicoelectronics and smart-card reader specialist Gemalto The new ST7GEM is a secure MCU in ST's ST7 family, preprogrammed with smart-card interface software from Gemalto, and requiring the addition of only a few passive external components to become a complete embedded smart-card reader solution
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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