From the Wires
Atmel's Secure Microcontroller With SERMEPA's Advantis Crypto Smart Card Receives VISA Approval
Apr. 16, 2009 08:01 AM
SAN JOSE, California, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and SERMEPA, a leading Spanish
technical provider for the electronic payments industry, announced today that
SERMEPA's Advantis(R) crypto solution with an Atmel Secure Microcontroller,
has been granted a VISA(R) approval. SERMEPA has developed Advantis, a family
of products and services that furnish the full suite of infrastructure needed
for processing financial transactions with multi-application smart cards to
address Spanish and international markets. SERMEPA has developed the Advantis
Crypto smart card operating system, which is now available on Atmel's
AT90SC9618RCT secure microcontroller for banking. The Advantis crypto
solution is a native multi-application, multi-currency, and multi-provider
operating system for smart cards. This card offers issuers performance,
security and fraud prevention.
The Advantis Crypto smart card solution is based on Atmel's AT90SC9618RCT
secure microcontroller. Developed primarily for the banking smart card
market, the AT90SC9618RCT features 18 Kbytes EEPROM, 96 Kbytes ROM and 4
Kbytes of RAM. It shares the same common features of Atmel's secureAVR(R)
family including its outstanding 8-bit/16-bit RISC CPU performance, strong
security mechanisms, firewalls and two cryptographic co-processors, one for
asymmetric algorithms (RSA) and one for DES/Triple DES.
Herve Roche, Atmel's Marketing Manager for banking products, commented,
"This successful solution in partnership with SERMEPA enhances Atmel's
position as a leading supplier of highly secure smart card ICs for Banking in
Europe and South America. The security features of the secureAVR 8-bit/16-bit
RISC family have once again been highlighted with this new reward."
Carmen Carnero Silvo, SERMEPA's Deputy Managing Director, commented,
"SERMEPA is pleased to offer this new solution to the bankcard industry in
cooperation with Atmel. By bringing the component AT90SC9618RCT to market,
card issuers now have a wider array of Advantis chip platforms to choose from
in order to deploy EMV payment products in cards manufactured by different
providers."
About Atmel
Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of
microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio
frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest
intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide
the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on consumer,
industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets.
(c) 2009 Atmel Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Atmel(R), Atmel logo and
combinations thereof, secureAVR(R) and others, are registered trademarks or
trademarks of Atmel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other terms and product
names may be trademarks of others.
Atmel Information:
For further information about Atmel, please visit www.atmel.com
About SERMEPA
Servicios Para Medios de Pago, S.A. (SERMEPA) is a Spanish company that
provides a wide array of technical solutions to the Payment Industry. SERMEPA
offers payment card solutions to bank card issuers, including the full
Advantis family of chip operating systems and applications. SERMEPA operates
in Spain and abroad, both as a communications backbone system and as a
technical research and development center. Its dedication and efforts in
these fields have made of SERMEPA a highly reputed payment transaction
processor within the Payment Industry. In 2008, SERMEPA processed 2 billion
transactions.
(c) 2009 SERMEPA S.A. All Rights Reserved. Advantis(R) and SERMEPA(R) and
combinations thereof and others, are registered trademarks or trademarks of
Servicios Para Medios de Pago, S.A. Other terms and product names may be
trademarks of others.
SERMEPA Information:
For further information about SERMEPA, please visit www.sermepa.es
Atmel Press Contacts:
Carine Bourgon, Communications Manager - Atmel Rousset
Tel: (+33)-4-42-53-60-52, Email: carine.bourgon@atmel.com
Helen Perlegos, Public Relations
Tel: +1-408-487-2963, Email: helen.perlegos@atmel.com
SERMEPA Press Contact:
Rosa Ovejero, Communications Manager - Spain
Tel: (+34)-91-346-5335, Email: rovejero@sermepa.es
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