- 07 February, 2012
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CEA-Leti has demonstrated a contactless, very high-speed interface for RFID smartcards that were originally designed for authentication applications such as public transportation tickets, bankcards and access control that require only low data- transmission speeds. More recent applications, such as the transfer of biometric data and multimedia file downloads, require faster data transfer.
In response Leti has been focusing on technologies that provide higher transfer rates and has created a prototype of a complete phase modulation system, a reader and a card, that now achieves speeds of 6.8 Mbit/s. Phase modulation’s spectral characteristics are superior to those of amplitude modulation, allowing considerably higher speeds than the current limit of 848 Kbit/s. Leti’s current work on optimisation of signal processing aims to attain speeds greater than 10 Mbit/s. Leti is also holding discussions with the International Organization for Standardisation (ISO), in partnership with GEMALTO, to take full advantage of this work. The very high-speed contactless interface has come out of research that Leti has carried out since 2003 and Leti’s work on the MEDEA+Onomtopic project. That project, which ended in 2009, involved 16 European companies and research organizations developing a set of international standards related to e-identity and mobile transactions and to demonstrate concrete implementation of these standards. At the heart of the project were advanced prototypes for a new generation of e-ID cards or SIM devices. CEA is a French research and technology public organisation, with activities in four main areas: energy, information technologies, healthcare technologies and defence and security.
