Smart card terminal systems using ISO/IEC 7816-3 interface and 8051 microprocessor based on the System-on-Chip

Abstract

A smart card terminal designed and developed to communicate with smart cards via a single System-on-Chip (SoC) is described in this paper. This proposed and developed SoC-based smart card terminal, designed with the Verilog Hardware Description Language (HDL) and the Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis (SPICE), can be achieved and operated by proper connections to a Personal Computer (PC) and by dedicated software drivers that control the communication protocol between the smart card and the card terminal. We have also constructed an integrated test environment to verify the system developed. Through this test environment, we should be able to check all operational functions of the SoC-based developed smart card terminal microprocessor and smart card interface. The results showed that our test board operated successfully.