Infineon and Renesas to Offer Common Smart Card Application Programmable Interface

Infineon Technologies AG and Renesas Technology Corp., the world’s number one and number two suppliers of microcontrollers for smart cards, today announced that they will offer a common software interface for their 32-bit families of smart card microcontrollers. Such a standardised software interface will help to accelerate the development of new smart card applications, as it enables card manufacturers to re-use their application-specific software across various smart card IC platforms, which are widely used in mobile communications applications.