BasicCard is a robust and powerful operating system for smartcards and is the first card programmable in BASIC. It is easy to use, open to anyone, requires no special training, and competitively priced. All the tools needed to be a serious competitor are included in the BasicCard Toolkit.

Ease of Use

With the BasicCard Development Kit, a programmer capable of understanding BASIC and C, C++, Visual Basic, or Delphi will be ready program smartcards in one day, even without prior smartcard experience.

Great Pricing

An Enhanced BasicCard with 8kByte E²PROM will cost about $3.95 in development quantities and $3.00 or less in production quantities.

Time to Market

No other smartcard is faster to market. While others are working with outdated emulators and worrying about ROM Masks and lead times, you will be demonstrating real products to your newest customers.

Small Orders

Many smartcard projects start small. So even if your customer's first order is only about 50 or 100 cards, VCT can fill you order without problems.

Your In Control

No more worries that your supplier might become your toughest competitor. With the BasicCard, you are in control because there are no proprietary "black-boxes". You programmed it yourself, it's your application, your customer, and with VCT as your supplier, you're in control.

Flexibility

BasicCard offers virtually limitless opportunities - an e-purse, identification or medical card, internet security, driverÕs license, network access, software key, access control, gift and loyalty programs - you decide.

Security

For many applications, security is the main concern. With BasicCard, you offer the best. Of course, we support standards like AES, DES, 3DES, RSA, and for unsurpassed security, you have the option of our 161-bit Elliptical Curve Cryptography.

How it Works

Follow our examples or write your own application. When your done, use the BasicCard compiler to convert your application to P-Code and load it to the E²PROM of your BasicCard and you have just programmed your first BasicCard.  It is that simple!

BasicCard Development Kit

This includes all the software needed to start programming yourself: a CyberMouse PC/SC smartcard reader/writer, a balance reader with 10 digit display, one Compact BasicCard BC1.1 (1kByte E²PROM, and two Enhanced BasicCard BC3.3 (8kByte E²PROM).Tools run under Microsoft Windows. The software package contains a fully functional symbolic double debugger to step through the source code from the BasicCard and the reader/writer simultaneously. The BasicCard Toolkit also includes an API for 32 bit Windows either as API for programming using Microsoft Visual Basic.

BASIC developed when programmers needed a language suited to the limited computing resources available 20 years ago. The BASIC language is well suited for programming smartcards as it is small, easy to handle and above all, functions well on the limited resources of a smartcard. BASIC has remained one of the most widely understood, accessible, and best documented programming languages. When you also consider the limitations of smartcard microprocessors, BASIC becomes the smart choice. There are fancier programming languages, but when you are trying to program a smartcard, anything other than BASIC is just show business. The most important difference between a BasicCard and another programmable smartcard is not the programming language – but, the price. The formula is simple: the bigger the chip, the higher the price.