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    What Is A Smart Card

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    Smart cards are plastic cards with an embedded microprocessor chip that function like credit cards. They can store financial or personal information on an integrated circuit chip. Smart cards come in two varieties - contact cards that require insertion into a card reader, and contactless cards that use radio frequency signals. The microprocessor chip contains components like a microprocessor unit to execute programs, I/O controller to manage data flow, ROM to store permanent instructions, RAM for temporary storage, and EEPROM to allow for rewriting of applications. Key advantages of smart cards are their security and processing capabilities from the embedded microprocessor, adherence to standards, durability, and ability to support multiple applications on a single card.

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    What Is A Smart Card

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    Smart cards are plastic cards with an embedded microprocessor chip that function like credit cards. They can store financial or personal information on an integrated circuit chip. Smart cards come in two varieties - contact cards that require insertion into a card reader, and contactless cards that use radio frequency signals. The microprocessor chip contains components like a microprocessor unit to execute programs, I/O controller to manage data flow, ROM to store permanent instructions, RAM for temporary storage, and EEPROM to allow for rewriting of applications. Key advantages of smart cards are their security and processing capabilities from the embedded microprocessor, adherence to standards, durability, and ability to support multiple applications on a single card.

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    Smart cards are plastic cards with an embedded microprocessor chip that function like credit cards. They can store financial or personal information on an integrated circuit chip. Smart cards come in two varieties - contact cards that require insertion into a card reader, and contactless cards that use radio frequency signals. The microprocessor chip contains components like a microprocessor unit to execute programs, I/O controller to manage data flow, ROM to store permanent instructions, RAM for temporary storage, and EEPROM to allow for rewriting of applications. Key advantages of smart cards are their security and processing capabilities from the embedded microprocessor, adherence to standards, durability, and ability to support multiple applications on a single card.

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    What Is A Smart Card

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    Smart cards are plastic cards with an embedded microprocessor chip that function like credit cards. They can store financial or personal information on an integrated circuit chip. Smart cards come in two varieties - contact cards that require insertion into a card reader, and contactless cards that use radio frequency signals. The microprocessor chip contains components like a microprocessor unit to execute programs, I/O controller to manage data flow, ROM to store permanent instructions, RAM for temporary storage, and EEPROM to allow for rewriting of applications. Key advantages of smart cards are their security and processing capabilities from the embedded microprocessor, adherence to standards, durability, and ability to support multiple applications on a single card.

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    What is a smart card

    Smart card is a plastic card with embedded microprocessor that looks like credit card.
    Any card that can relate to any particular application like magnetic stripe, optical, memory and
    microprocessor.
    Magnetic stripe card has a magnetic tape material attached to its surface. This is the standard
    technology used for bank cards.
    Optical cards are bank sized plastic cards where optical cards are used to read and write the cards.
    Memory cards are used to store the financial or personal information.
    Smart cards with microprocessor looks like standard plastic cards but embedded with integrated circuit
    (IC) chip. Microprocessor cards can store information, do local processing and perform complex
    calculations. These cards take the form of contact cards which requires a card reader to read the card or
    contactless cards which uses radio frequency signals to operate.
    Smart cards are credit card sized often made out of PVC and are embedded with memory and
    microprocessor chip.

    Micro chip has 8 metallic patches on its surface each designed through internal standards for
    VCC,RST,CLK,GND,VPP,I/O,RFU

    Micro chip on the smart card is made up of several key components:


    1.Microprocessor unit-executes program instructions
    2.I/O controller-manages flow of data b/w the card acceptance device and the micro controller
    3.ROM-is where the instructions are permanently burnt into the memory by the silicon manufacturer
    company
    4.RAM-temporarily store the input and output data
    5.EEPROM-Application which is electrically erasable programmable read only memory can be
    electronically erased and rewritten.

    The key advantage of smart card technology include:


    1.On board microprocessor and data capacity for highly secure, off line processing
    2.Adherence to international standard
    3.Established track record in real world applications

    4.Durability and long expected life span


    5.Chip operating systems that support multiple applcations

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