A new contactless smartcard IC using an on-chip antenna and an asynchronous micro-controller

A. Abrial (1) , J. Bouvier (2) , Marc Renaudin (1) , P. Senn (2) , Pascal Vivet (1)

1 TIMA - Techniques de l'Informatique et de la Microélectronique pour l'Architecture des systèmes intégrés
2 FT R&D - France Télécom Recherche & Développement

A new generation of Contactless Smartcard Chip is described. The Contactless Smartcard Chip integrates an on-chip coil connected to a power reception system and an emitter/receiver module compatible with the ISO 14443 standard, together with an asynchronous Quasi Delay Insensitive (QDI) 8-bit micro-controller. Beyond the contactless smartcard application field, this new chip demonstrates that System-on-Chip integrating power reception and management, radio-frequency communication and signal processing are feasible. The chip associates analog/digital parts as well as synchronous/asynchronous logics and has been fabricated in a CMOS 6 metal layers .25µm technology from STMicroelectronics.

Domaines: Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

A. Abrial, J. Bouvier, Marc Renaudin, P. Senn, Pascal Vivet. A new contactless smartcard IC using an on-chip antenna and an asynchronous micro-controller. Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2000. ESSCIRC '00. Proceedings of the 26th European, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden. pp.97 - 100. ⟨hal-00012696⟩