MIFARE Classic - a pioneer and front runner in contactless smart card ICs

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.

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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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