StarChip®, experts in designing, qualifying and industrialising Smart Card ICs announced that it is currently sampling the SCF136H product, its latest SIM controller designed to serve the Native market. The addition of the SCF136H to its product portfolio makes StarChip a broad range supplier of SIM controllers delivering solutions for the whole Telecom market. Several innovative technologies that will shape the next generation StarChip products have been embedded in the SCF136H to deliver a State of the art solution.
While most products for this segment are based on 8/16 bit architecture, SCF136H is based on Cortus APS3cd 32bit CPU, enabling 10Mips@20MHz across a broad spectrum of temperatures and offers advanced low power modes. Special care has been taken regarding the optimisation of the instruction set making the APS3cd perfectly suited for applications highly demanding in terms of code density. Alongside its 136KB of unified flash memory the SCF136H integrates a 3.5KB static RAM. Pre-loaded bootloader can also be delivered with the SCF136H.
