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 BasicCard® is a powerful, open operating system for smartcards. It is the first smartcard programmable in BASIC. It is easy to use, open to anyone, requires no special training, and competitively priced. Using the BasicCard OS for smartcard, anyone can program their own smartcard. All the tools you need to be a serious competitor are included in the BasicCard Toolkit. Consider some of the benefits of using the BasicCard OS for smartcard...
Ease of Use:
With the BasicCard Development Kit, any programmer proficient in BASIC will be programming a smart card in one day, even without prior smart card experience.
Great Pricing:
A BasicCard smart card with 2 kByte E²Prom will cost US$ 3,45 each in small quantities.
Time to Market:
No other smart card is faster to market. While others are working with outdated emulators and worrying about E²Prom, you will be demonstrating real products to your newest customers.
Small Orders:
Many smart card projects start small. So even if your customer's first order is only about 50 or 100 BasicCards, you can count on us to fill it without problems.
You're In Control:
No more worries that your supplier might become your toughest competitor. With the BasicCard, you're in control - there are no proprietary "black-boxes". You programmed it yourself, it's your application, your customer, and with BasicCard you're in control.
Flexibility:
BasicCard offers virtually limitless opportunities. You can use it for the most smart card applications like: an E-Purse, Identification Card, Medical Card, Internet Security, Drivers License Network Access, Software Key, Access Control, Gift and Loyalty programs - you decide.
Security:
For many smart card applications security is the main concern, & with BasicCard you offer the best. Of course we supports standards like DES, TripleDES and AES, but now for unsurpassed security, you have the option of our 1024-bit-RSA or 167-bit Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
How it Works
The BasicCard Toolkit includes everything you need to get started. Install the software and smart card reader/writer and you are ready to start.
Follow our examples or write your own application. When you are done, use the BasicCard compiler to convert your application to P-Code and load it to the E²Prom of your BasicCard. You have just programmed your first smart card. It is that simple!
BasicCard -Toolkit
This package includes all the software you'll need to start programming yourself. You will also get a PC/SC compatible smart card reader/writer CyberMouse®, a small balance reader, an Enhanced BasicCard ZC3.7 (2 kByte E²Prom), and two Enhanced BasicCard ZC3.9 (8 kByte E²Prom). The Windows® software package contains a fully functional symbolic double debugger to step through the source code from the BasicCard and the PC simultaneously. The BasicCard Toolkit also includes an API for 32 bit Windows® either as API for programming using C/C++ or as OCX for programming using Microsoft® Visual Basic®
Why is BASIC the Smart Choice?
BASIC was originally developed when computers had no resources. That is exactly the same problem what we have today with smart cards. So programmers needed a language suited to the limited computing resources - and here BASIC fits perfect. When you also take into account the limitations of smart card microprocessors, BASIC becomes the smart choice. Sure, there are fancier programming languages, but when you are trying to program a smart card, anything else is just show business.
In the end, the most important difference between a BasicCard® and a Java® or MultOS®card is not the programming language - it´s the price. And the formula here is simple: the bigger the smart card chip, the higher the price. Java® and MultOS® are resource-hungry, to run a simple application they need expensive smart card chips (i.e. 1 kByte RAM, 64 kByte ROM and 32 kByte E²Prom). Using the Enhanced BasicCard (256 bytes RAM, 17 kByte ROM and 8 kByte E²Prom) costs 1/3 as much.
BasicCard is develop by ZeitControl cardsystem. You may want to visit BasicCard web-site for more information at:- www.basiccard.de.
Call us today, to get the BasicCard & BasicCard development tools!
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