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				Summary The market of smart cards is booming and the European semiconductor industry has a firm lead in the development and production of so-called smart card controllers. From a technology point of view, there are two important trends. Primarily, more and more functionality is added on-chip, requiring more computational power. Both the associated extra energy consumption and the extra heat removal (plastic is a poor heat conductor) are major challenges. Secondly, a large growth is expected in the market for contact-less cards, respectively dual-interface cards. Those cards collect energy from the electro-magnetic field applied to it from some distance. Here it is also critical to lower the peak current consumption. DESCALE, a Design Experiment on a Smart Card Application for Low Energy, proposes the application of the highly innovative handshake technology to address both issues, aiming at some 3 to 5 times less power and some 10 times smaller peak currents compared to synchronously operated solutions. The required technologies are all represented in the consortium, so are the means to exploit the results. DESCALE will contribute to strengthen the European leadership in smart cards. Participants Philips Semiconductors (D), Philips Research (NL), Philips Semiconductors Gratkorn (A), Mikroelektronik Anwendungszentrum Hamburg (D)     Design Story Public Deliverables

   

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