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Smartcard Operating Systems

Unlike memory cards, smartcards need an operating system to manage their microcontrollers. 

Until recently, the only commercially viable card operating systems available were  proprietary and available only from large systems houses that also manufactured cards for their own applications. 

This meant that  independent application developers without their own card manufacturing had to rely on a competitor for access to the smartcard market. 

VCT has helped change that by focusing the resources of a world-class card manufacturer on providing application developers with the smartcard products, services, and software tools they need to compete with the large system houses.

Our customers worry less because they know their smartcards and development tools come from a company that is relying on them for success.

Proprietary V. Open

A 'Proprietary Card OS' is one owned and distributed on a single source basis by a card manufacturer who is also in the business of developing smartcard applications.

Virtual Machine V. ROM

A ROM based card OS allows developers to call predetermined  functions contained in ROM that can not be changed after manufacturing. ACOS1 is a ROM based card OS.

A Virtual Machine based card OS,  allows you to write and download executable code into the EE PROM of the smartcard. Examples include the BasicCard, Aptura, and MultOS.  

 
 
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