Contact Card Testing Products

ContactLAB - All-in-one tool tests smart cards and USIM

ContactLAB provides users both the flexibility to address the latest smart card interfaces, and the complete control of signal paramters required for device characterization and certification. It emulates both the ISO 7816 the Single Wire Protocol (SWP) interfaces, making it the ideal tool for component manufacturers and integrators on standard smart cards  and USIM cards.

ContactLAB also offers all the features that forward looking integrators will require for certification of USIM in an NFC environment.

Stop in and experience the flexibility and integration that will make ContactLAB the most versatile tool in your lab.

Contactless Card & Reader Testing Products

ProxiCARD - Validates readers with identity and payment applications

In addition to demos of ProxiLAB and ProxiPSY, you can check out the ease-of-use and flexibility of our ProxiCARD contactless smart card emulator. Thanks to its management of all aspects of low-level signaling with contactless readers, ProxiCARD allows application developers to focus their attention their smart card applications and reader responses.

First developed for laboratory and field testing of readers for MasterCard, today ProxiCARD offers both PayPass and ISO 10373 compliance. It is used extensively for conformance testing by consultants and laboratories. Stop by for a visit and see ProxiCARD in use with sample PayPass and passport applications.

Other demos include the ProxiLAB contactless signal emulator for PICC testing with our Analog test bench and a preview of new features for testing of contactless readers.

If you already own ProxiLAB, find out how you can benefit from the new PCD test features. If you don't have ProxiLAB yet, learn about the features that will make this future "all-in-one" test platform the reference in contacless test and certification.

NFC Testing Products

ContactLAB - Certifying NFC in mobile mobile phones

ContactLAB embeds the technology required for full test and certification of  Single Wire Protocol (SWP), Host Controller Interface (HCI), High level Data Link Controller (HDLC) for the contactless front end of NFC mobile phones. Synchronized with ProxiLAB for test of RF interface protocols such as ISO 14443, this platform provides off-the-shelf test capability for certifying NFC implementation in accordance with ISO and ETSI standards.

Visit the Raisonance stand an learn more about the ContactLAB features, as well as the test suites that are currently availble for validation of NFC mobile phones.

ProxiSPY - The ideal tool for diagnosing interoperability problems in NFC implementation

Easy to use, support of a complete range of contactless communication protocols, adapted to the wide range of smart objects on the market today (cards, key fobs, usb keys, mobile phones)... all of these reasons make ProxiSPY the ideal tool for diagnosing interoperability problems whether you're a component manufacturer, integrator or solution provider.

Viewed alone ProxiSPY is a versatile, powerful tool. Stop in for a visit and we'll show you how, integrated with ContactLAB and ProxiLAB, ProxiSPY provides test and diagnostic capabilites for a growing range of technolgies... to include NFC capable mobile phones!

F@CIL: Fast Contactless Intuitive Layer project

F@CIL, a joint effort of Gemalto, CEA Leti and Raisonance, provides a Very High Data Rate standard, including physical implementation, protocol & tools. Building on existing standards for data rates up to 0.848 Mbps, VHDR components promise 10 Mbps, secure transfer for contactless smart cards and systems in identity, healthcare and peer-to-peer applications.

In response to growing market demand for secure transfer of large volumes of data in mobile applications ranging from identity control to health care, F@CIL proposes a new Very High Data Rate (VHDR) standard for contactless smart cards and systems.

For VHDR, the project participants Gemalto, CEA Leti and Raisonance, addressed market imperatives including:

• Simple, intuitive interfacing
• Confidentiality of transfers
• Convenience of transfers
• Potential for rapid, widespread implementation

The F@CIL project addresses all implementation aspects from physical and protocol levels to tools for test and verification. The resulting VHDR standard demonstrated here, meets market imperatives and attains data rates of 6.7 Million bits per second (Mbps), with rates of 10 Mbps expected soon. This is combined with simultaneous power transfer and low-cost technology so that VHDR is equally adapted to high-volume, contactless smart cards and related systems (phones, card readers, etc.).

Today’s demonstrations include both implementation on a passive device (smart card) and an active mobile system.

In the first demonstration, a system powers a smart card, and receives an image stored in its memory in the same way that medical imagery might be read from a patient’s healthcare card. Reliance on proximity RF coupling ensures first-level confidentiality by limiting the distance of transactions to within 10 cm. This is further enhanced by a communication protocol for secure exchanges that is adapted to the high data rate.

The second, demonstrates a peer-to-peer exchange where an handheld Primer2 receives audio streamed from another system. The very high speed of transaction and improved data flow management enables transfer and treatment of files containing several hundred kilo-bytes of data with tap-and-go ease.

VHDR is a major evolution in contactless smart card technology. However, it is an evolution that builds on existing standards (ISO 14443, NFC, ISO 10373) to ensure interoperability and enhance deploy-ability.