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SIM cards
General description
Mobile communications is one of the fast growing applications within the smart card industry, and the next generation of SIM (Subscriber Identification Module) cards and UICCs (Universal IC Cards) will feature a variety of additional customer services.
Background information
SIM cards are your smart silicon key to mobile communications.
The increased use of mobile phones in everyday life will continue to enhance mobility, with new revenue generating services such as on-line banking and trading, ticket reservations, ordering food deliveries, internet access, weather reports and all different kind of location-based, personalized services and contactless applications. These additional services/developments are adding to the requirements on highly secure ICs to provide additional memory, highest performance, connectivity, flexibility and full interoperability to SIM and UICC cards.
Products
- NXP offers a complete portfolio of smart card ICs for mobile communications applications - from 2G SIM cards up to high performance smart card platforms for 3G applications.
- The SmartMX family offers proven security and an optimum performance in mobile applications, restricted by maximum current consumption.
- NXP's SmartXA ICs easily fulfill the needs of extended 2G+ applications and interoperable Java-SIM cards that are paving the way to 3G.
- For JavaCard based 3G applications, NXP's 32-bit HiPerSmart platform is the right choice for combining the UICC connectivity requirements with highest performance and flexibility.
- NXP is currently developing a 32-bit platform targeting the next generation of UICCs supporting NFC functionality.
Customer benefits
NXP smart card ICs provide:
- The most comprehensive, technologically advanced solutions for all your SIM/USIM/RUIM needs
- Technology for contactless card emulation that is compliant to the existing reader infrastructure
- Family concept for chip card IC’s supporting a software reuse for different markets
- Leading edge security according to Common Criteria
- Proven development tools supporting fast time-to-market
- Design-in support from our dedicated application support teams