A new contactless smart card IC using an on-chip antenna and an asynchronous microcontroller

Author

Abrial, Andrée ; Bouvier, Jacky ; Renaudin, Marc ; Senn, Patrice ; Vivet, Pascal

Author_Institution

France Telecom R&D, Meylan, France

Volume

36

Issue

7

fYear

2001

fDate

7/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1101

Lastpage

1107

Abstract

This paper describes a new generation of contactless smart card chip which 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 microcontroller. Beyond the contactless smart card application field, this new chip demonstrates that system-on-chip integrating power reception and management, radio-frequency communication, and signal processing is feasible. It associates analog/digital parts as well as synchronous/asynchronous logics and has been fabricated in a CMOS six metal layers 0.25-μm technology from STMicroelectronics

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; asynchronous circuits; microcontrollers; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; smart cards; 0.25 micron; 8 bit; CMOS; ISO 14443 standard; STMicroelectronics; asynchronous microcontroller; asynchronous quasi-delay insensitive microcontroller; contactless smart card IC; emitter/receiver module; on-chip antenna; on-chip coil; power management; power reception system; radio-frequency communication; signal processing; synchronous/asynchronous logics; system-on-chip; Coils; Energy management; ISO standards; Microcontrollers; Power generation; Power system management; Radio frequency; Radio spectrum management; Smart cards; System-on-a-chip;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4.933467

Filename

933467