SST Announces Theseus Titanium 240 Smart Card IC

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Melisande Mual

08 Nov 2007 / 5 Min Read

The Theseus Titanium 240 uses a performance-optimized architecture, making it the highest performing 8051-based smart card IC on the market today. The Theseus Titanium 240 also offers a low-power design with a number of security features to increase battery life in handsets while ensuring that sensitive data remains secure. The Theseus Titanium 240 can enable a 64K Java Card SIM implementation or a 128K SIM card with a native operating system, giving GSM mobile network operators a single SIM card solution that can support open operating systems or their own proprietary operating system. According to data from Frost & Sullivan, the 64K Java SIM card market is the largest volume SIM card segment and is forecast to remain the largest segment over the next four years.High Performance, Low Power The Theseus Titanium 240 smart card IC uses an 8051 controller core that allows four clocks per instruction cycle. The 60 MHz internal oscillator makes this the fastest-performing 8051-based smart card IC available in the market. This improved performance comes without any significant increases in power consumption thanks to Theseus Titanium 240s power saving features, including clock gating and voltage scaling. Theseus Titanium 240 Security Features Because Theseus Titanium 240 uses flash memory, it is inherently secure from chemical reverse engineering. The instant programmability of flash memory allows smart card operating systems to remove insecure back doors that are required when using ROM memory. To further protect data on the smart card, the Theseus Titanium 240 includes the following additional security features: -- Secure memory blocks that prohibit write and erase, and cannot be read from outside blocks -- Protection from environmental conditions through the use of voltage regulators and frequency, temperature ultra-violet light and glitch  detectors -- An encrypted loader application to protect the operating system during third-party programming Development Tool Support To assist software developers with the creation of operating systems and applications for Theseus Titanium smart card ICs, SST offers several software development platforms. The Theseus Emulator provides source-level debug and standalone device emulation of the Theseus Titanium family of smart card ICs. Compatible with Ashlings PathFinder or Keil uVision 3 IDE, the Theseus Emulator provides full source-level debug and emulation support for C and Assembler smart card applications. The emulator also supports the ability to debug smart card code in a fully functioning card reader system. Additional development tools include probe adaptors for both ISO7816 and SIM/U-SIM format interfaces, and the Pathfinder-51 source level debugger software. Theseus Titanium devices are also supported fully within the Keil uVision 3 development environment. Further development support is available from SSTs website. Pricing and Availability Samples of the Theseus Titanium 240 smart card IC are available now, with volume production scheduled for Q1 2008. Pricing for the device starts at $0.45 in 100K-unit quantities for thinned, sawn wafer. The distribution of technical information and sales of devices are conducted only under Non-Disclosure Agreements to protect the security and confidentiality of SSTs smart card products.

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Melisande Mual

08 Nov 2007 / 5 Min Read

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