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Overview

Simulity offers two new card products - a Native Card and a Virtual Machine Card. Both are designed for maximum flexibility and a shortened development cycle. The Virtual Machine Card offers easy application development and post-issuance addition to applications already installed on the card. Our cards have been developed to deploy a customized Smart Card solution into any market in a very short time frame, cutting down on time and development costs and allowing rapid implementation of planned solutions, similar to that available with our server offer.

TaCOS-N: Native Card

The Native Card is our low profile card. It has been designed for cheaper system implementations with a finite number of applications on the card. The Native Card would be deployed in cases where there is a definitive number of application(s) required with no need for evolution of the card by post-issuance application(s) changes and/or additions to the card.
 
 

TaCOS-V: Virtual Machine Card

Our high profile card TaCOS-V is designed for more complex and demanding systems. It supports constant application development, personalization with scalable security - either OTA/OTI or local. It can support multiple applications, enabling one card to transcend several markets with its different applications thanks to numerous Simulity APIs. Java language is used for application design, making it as developer friendly as possible. The TaCOS-V is very scalable in size for Flash memory and RAM.
 
TaCOS-C : The Community Edition of the Virtual Machine Card offers similar features for a vanilla micro-controller in an Open Source package, and provides an easy migration path to a smartcard implementation.
 

Markets

The smartcard products target the following markets:
  • Telecom : with a low cost (U)SIM implemented on the Native Card or a high end GlobalPlatformTM. compliant (U)SIM with post issuance applications installation on the Virtual Machine based card
  • Transit Systems : with a low cost application on the Native Card or an application that can be installed on the Virtual Machine based card
  • Banking and ID : launched to markets following the platform certifications in 2012
  • Machine-to-Machine : The platform is designed to be easily ported on any chip, allowing the freedom to move to any form factor