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Security and smartcard overview

STMicroelectronics offers a wide array of market-proven products applicable to Secure systems for banking, e-government and e-ID, mobile phones, Pay TV and content protection, M2M, NFC, Track & trace or mass-transit, many of them implemented as smartcards. These products include dedicated microcontrollers and processors, embedded memories, mixed-signal & analog devices and discretes.
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IT Security

Secure ICs for IT Security (USB)
STMicroelectronics has developed a unique portfolio of products to support the development and deployment of IT and PC peripherals.
With extensive experience in secure microcontrollers and system-on-chip (SoC) devices, combined with advanced inhouse packaging systems, ST provides innovative solutions for USB and TPM applications.

ST19 smartcard ICs
ST23 highly secure smartcard ICs
Banking

Banking
STMicroelectronics is a world leader in the development and delivery of smartcard ICs for the banking sector. For more than 10 years, ST’s smartcard technologies have been implemented in many of our partners’ products, and adopted by banks and financial institutions across the world. Today, the ST23 secure platform is a reference in banking and ST continues innovating with the introduction of the advanced 90 nm EEPROM technology and the qualification of fast and reliable contactless products.

ST23 highly secure smartcard ICs
e-ID and e-governement

e-ID and e-government security documents
Today, governments across the world recognize smartcards as a key tool in protecting international security and personal data, reducing fraud and improving service and information with citizens. STMicroelectronics offers the optimum combination of security, portability and functionality for governments and industry partners in each country. ST’s proven silicon technology, its world-class manufacturing capabilities, and its experience as one of the long-standing leaders in this market, make the company the ideal partner for important long-term government projects. In areas such as health, driving licenses, national ID and international passports, major programs are in progress to upgrade existing solutions to smartcard technology.

ST23 highly secure smartcard ICs
Mobile communications

Mobile communications
Drawing on its expertise in NVM memories, ST is extending the boundaries of the smartcard process to offer a complete new range of smartcard ICs. The complete product range, sustained by a dynamic technology roadmap, incorporates optimized features and architecture that are well adapted to the requirements of mobile communication applications. Today, ST can support all IC needs for GSM, from 2G to 3G and new innovative applications such as mobile TV, SCWS, multimedia SIM and contactless applications.

ST21 smartcard ICs for mobile
 ST32 32-bit smartcard ICs for communications
 ST33 highly secure 32-bit smartcard ICs
Pay_TV

Pay TV
STMicroelectronics is the world’s leading supplier of ICs for pay-TV and conditional access, and has extensive experience supplying 8- and 32-bit secure microcontrollers for conditional access to pay-TV providers. Drawing on its expertise in security and non-volatile memories, ST is upgrading its pay-TV product family with the introduction of a new enhanced 8/16-bit microcontroller combined with EEPROM and a new 32-bit ARM SC300TM based microcontroller associated with high density Flash storage.

ST23 highly secure smartcard ICs
 ST33 highly secure 32-bit smartcard ICs
M2M

M2M (Machine-to-machine)
Drawing on its expertise in NVM memories for automotive markets, STMicroelectronics is extending the boundaries of the smartcard process to offer a new range of ICs with extended guarantees complying with the most demanding quality requirements for machine-to-machine (M2M) applications. Enabling secure wireless communications between various system elements (cars, metering systems, vending machines, etc.), these M2M devices withstand extreme environmental conditions such as extended temperature, humidity and vibration ranges, while the guaranteed lifetime of these products is also extended. The ST32-M family is designed to support this growing market covering various applications such as emergency calls, industrial data collection and inventory management.

ST32-M, 32-bit Flash microcontrollers for M2M
Mass_transit

Mass-transit
STMicroelectronics, a world leader in the development and delivery of contactless-ticket and smartcard ICs, offers a complete product range for mass transit applications. Our portfolio leverages our leadership in non-volatile memories and more than 20 years experience in the smartcard industry. ST products cover all needs from simple or more intelligent and flexible e-tickets to secure subscriber cards.

ST19 secure smartcard ICs
 ST23 highly secure smartcard ICs
NFC NFC (Near Field Communication)
NFC (Near Field Communication) technology is at the heart of an expanding range of easy-to-use, intuitive, contactless applications. These are targeting a broad range of electronics devices such as handsets, PDAs and other consumer electronics devices.
Taking advantage of the three different possible operating modes (reader, peer-to-peer, card emulation), NFC technology is used to address a wide variety of use cases such as mobile payment, ticketing and transport, Bluetooth pairing and smart posters.
The ST21NFCA offers a ready-to-use solution covering all the contact interfaces to the terminal processor, (U)SIM and all other secure elements. It also includes drivers for all standard RF protocols.

ST21 Near Field Communication microcontrollers
Brand protection

Brand protection
STMicroelectronics, a world-leading supplier of secure microcontrollers, has developed a family of highly-secure solutions for manufacturers who wish to protect their brand against counterfeit, cloning or any illegitimate use.
AuKey consists of a secure operating system that runs on top of the latest generation of secure microcontrollers and provides authentication services to the main application processor for it to distinguish between genuine and unwanted parts.

Brand Protection
 
Product brochures and selectors
Product brochures and selectors for smartcards ICs
 
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