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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

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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