Smart Card Design Centre

Dr. LM Cheng

Director

Smart Card Design Center was funded by the Innovation and Technology Commission, Government of the HKSAR, this center provides technical support to Hong Kong industry for design of smart card modules, crypto-engines, readers and Chip Operating Systems.

Further support by Trade and Industry Department SME Development Fund to develop dual interface OS and testing facilities.

Building its strength with RCW on RFID Readers Project funded by ITF HK/Guangdong Cooperative Project

Smart Card Design Centre

Associated Laboratories – Digital Systems Lab. (Dept. IT) and EDA Lab. (EE)

Partner Laboraty – Research Centre Wireless Communication

Associated Company – MaCaPS International Ltd.

The center provides the following activities:

Technology Transfer

Consultancy Service

Manpower Training

Capabilities

Chip and Crypto-processor DesignReader & Antenna Design and

ODM/OEMEmulator DesignOS Design and ImplementationOS & Signal Converter DesignFingerprint Device InterfaceTesting Facilities

Chip and Crypto-processor Design2K/8K/16K EEPROM

Microprocessor smart card

Available Softcore

Fast 8051 microprocessorUSB interfaceDESRSAHash FunctionProprietary SCIPHERCRC

Customers

ISSI Inc.Malaysia Microelectronic Solutions Snd

Bhd

Xilinx FPGA development board for Softcore (Crypto-engines) development & emulation

Tools

Reader & Antenna Design and ODM/OEM

Customers:Oscar Smart Card LimitedMaCaPS Interntional Limited

ISO18000 Reader RF Front-end

Radio FrequencyRadio Frequency

Signal GeneratorSignal Generator

915Hz915Hz

Directional CouplerDirectional Coupler AntennaAntenna

Down ConverterDown Converter

RFID TagRFID Tag

DSO Result :

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

Preamble SYNCH Data

ID: 0 5 8ID: 0 5 8

Emulator Design (Simulator/Linker)

Customer:ISSI Inc.

OS Development

Proprietary Flexible Chip OS (FCOS)Java Card 2.11 Compatible OSOpen PlatformDual Interface Java Card

Applications: (FCOS)Emulate MultosEmulate Gemplus GemCard Memo

Dual Interface OS Development Tools

Converter Development

OS ConverterJava to Multos converterMultos to Java Converter

Interface ConverterWiegand to RS232 or RS485

converters

Fingerprint Device Interface

The fingerprint moduleThe fingerprint module

Testing Facilities

Smart Card Electrical TesterSmart Card Personalization Tester Smart Card Application Tester Contactless Card & Reader TesterSpectrum Analyzer

Smart card Fingerprint system

Unique card ID752 bytes usable storage16 Sectors4 blocks per SectorsIndependent key for each Sector

Smart Card Electrical Tester

OS Testing Software

Contactless Card & Reader Testers

Aiglent E4402B Spectrum Analysis

For antennae tuning and testing

Available Commercial Design Tools

Mentor Graphic FPGA AdvantageMentor Graphic Analog & Mixed

Signal Simulation

Other Available Academic LicenseSynopsys EDA ToolCadence EDA ToolXilinx Simulation ToolLegic Development ToolAltera Emulator and Development

ToolMultos Development Tool

Associated Company Products

MaCaPS Int’l Limited

Paul Y Centre, Kwun Tong

Access Control System • Smallest turn-key system• Direct Ethernet connection with

Communications auto-sense • Support up to 56,000 records of holders

and transactions in resilience mode

…Access Control System • Support up to128 time

zone commands• Support weekly and

holiday time zone setting• Support 8 doors

controllers for each event server

• Up to 64 event servers supported

• 10 year Card Holder data backup after power loss

• Support all type of readers including Octopus

Car Park System • Support 10,000 Users, 5,000

Groups, 10,000 Transactions• Local & Distributed intelligent,

Real Time Clock• 3 year battery Backup for

transaction and clock• Group Anti-Pass Back• Time Zone Setting• Real Time Transaction Display• Multi Car Park Entry• Remote Monitoring & gate

control• In/Out Transaction Report

Club House Facilities Booking System • Support 64 Event Servers• Group Access Control• Time Zone Setting• Real Time Transaction

Display

• Broadcasting Function• Remote Monitoring• In/Out Transaction Report• Remote door control• Usage statistic reporting

Lift Control System • Define group as Building Group for easy management• Set individual Time Zone for scheduling Opening• Support an on-the-fly opening function• Supported up to 128 Time Zone.• Allow each User to define an individual time zone for

each building Group and combination of access right

Management Software

• Provides a simple graphic user interface

• Allow system configuration, door control and card management.

• Provide system status monitoring and attendance reporting

• Support customised features, such as eMap and intruder tracking.

Time Attendance System • User definable working

hour and working period • Reports can print in

standard format• Staff information and report • Roster time definition • Holidays and allowance

Setting • Absence information • Late report, payroll report,

early leave report • Importing user database

from text file

RFID Reader On-going Development

Chip Development

VCO Chip Design Layout

Vout_m: VCO(+) Vctrl : control voltage

Vout_p: VCO (-) VDD : 1.8 V

Gnd : Gound Fre : 900 MHz – 1 GHz

Fabrication Schedule : Jan. 2006

Reader Development

LOW PASSFILTER

Q OUT

LOW PASSFILTER

I OUT

POWERSPLITTER

BAND PASSFILTER

RX INPUT

POWERSPLITTER

ATTENUATORBAND PASSFILTER

PLL902-928MHZ

RefCLOCK

PLL FREQ INPUT

POWERCONTROL IN

MODULATIONIN

TX OUTBAND PASS

FILTERAPM APM

UHF Band Module Block Diagram

Demo software

The First RFID Prototype

Reader and antenna of the RFID

Antenna Development

Developed RFID Antennas

Frequency : 902 – 928 MHzSWR : 1.5 :1Axial Ratio : 1.3 dBGain : ~12dBiBeam Width : 50

RHCP Helical Antenna

RHCP

LHCP

Beam Tilted Helical Antenna

Developed RFID Antennas

Size: 102 x 102 x 153 mmFrequency: 902~928 MHzVAWR: 1.5:1≦Gain: 11 dBiAxial Ratio: 2 dB≦

Beam Tilted Array Antenna

Size: 385 x 195 x 35.8mmFrequency: 902~928 MHzVWR: 1.5:1≦Gain: 9 dBAxial Ratio: 3 dB≦

Developed RFID Antennas

Library System Development

RFID for Library Applications

Main features:

(1)Check in and check out system(2) Entrance and exit system(3) Self check-out system

Library Software Control Panel

Library System Block Diagram

Contact: itlcheng@cityu.edu.hk

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