MIFARE is the leading industry standard for contactless and dual interface smart card schemes, with an immense worldwide installed base. The platform offers a full range of compatible contactless smart card and reader ICs, as well as dual-interface ICs. The MIFARE Classic family covers contactless smart card ICs used in public transport, access management, loyalty cards and many more. MIFARE Classic is fully compliant with ISO/IEC 14443 Type A, available with 1k and 4k memory and 7 Byte as well as 4 Byte identifiers.
Identification and security
MIFARE Classic - a pioneer and front runner in contactless smart card ICs
Key features and benefits
- Fully ISO/IEC 14443Type A 1-3 compliant
- Based on ISO/IEC 14443 A, ensuring a broad marketplace of solution developers and providers
- Available with 7 byte unique identifier (7B UID) or 4 byte non-unique identifier (4B NUID)
- Versatile product portfolio, offering an optimized price-performance ratio
- 1 kByte or 4 kByte EEPROM
- Card and reader compatibility across all generations leads to reduced infrastructure costs
- Memory access conditions freely programmable
- Many companies with commercial products, enabling a broad and competitive supply chain
- Personalization options supporting flexibility within 4 Byte- and 7 Byte UID infrastructure (7B UID version only)
- Fast time-to-market
Key applications
- Public Transportation
- Electronic Toll Collection
- Loyalty Cards
- Event Ticketing
- Car Parking
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Related links
Application note
- AN11302, End to end system security risk considerations for implementing MIFARE Classic (pdf) (2012-12-11)
- Quick Startup Guide for RD710 (pdf) (2012-10-22)
- Pegoda Software Design Guide (pdf) (2012-08-27)
- System level security measures for MIFARE installations (pdf) (2010-08-26)
Line card
- NXP MIFARE Smart Card ICs (pdf) (2010-11-19)
User manual
- UM10442, ID tracking procedure description (pdf) (2011-11-28)
Other type
- MAD list of registrations (pdf) (2013-02-06)
- ScriptWriter_226411, ScriptWriter (zip) (2012-10-03)
Training & events
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