PC Twin Applications
The innovative Smart card interface.
This compact card reader, designed to plug into a PC environment, is the ultimate smart
card peripheral for a PC. It is also very simple to use and install. The user needs no
technical knowledge. If you need electronic commerce, home banking or e-purse
facilities,
secure computer access or any of a multitude of other applications, the
PC
Twin is
the smartest answer. For the first time, a solution is available that offers impressive
possibilities at an exceptional price.
They will open up many possibilities, including:
- computer-access control,
- electronic commerce,
- home banking facilities,
- e-purse facilities,
- electronic smart-card personalization,
- development of smart-card application software,
- lots of other interesting or entertaining things
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PC Twin Benefits
Novel design with an intelligent approach
Using its best selling single chip interface, GemCore Pro, Gemalto has created a new reader, PC Twin that works in tandem with your
smart card design, while offering the end-user the choice of serial or USB
connection.by inserting the appropriate cable.
New Transparent Design
Customization of a smart card reader slows down time to market and
increase the cost of production. Gemalto removes both of these issues by providing a fully
transparent reader that makes the most your smart card design. By avoiding
graphical reader personalization, PC Twin allows you to use the smart
card as a promotional tool, bringing down all overall cots. Ergonomic and
compact, the new design of PC Twin will be a welcome to any workstation.
An intelligent approach
Companies deploying a smart card based solution face the problem of knowing which type of PC connection the end-user needs, either Serial or USB.
PC Twin overcomes this problem by being compliant with both standards and
can be provided with either serial or USB cables depending on customers need.
the power of this reader is its ability to automatically reconfigure the way
it communicates by simply inserting either cable.
Two references are available :(you will found within [ ] the
type of cable that is provided.)
| Model Name |
Casing |
Dimension |
| PC Twin [USB] |
Cristal |
68 x 63 x 12
mm |
| PC Twin [Serial] |
Cristal |
68 x 63 x 12 mm |
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PC-Link readers can now be ordered on Gemalto webstore : http://store.Gemalto.com
Drivers can be downloaded from support.gemalto.com:
Drivers for PC Twin
Years of Gemalto technological experience, now available to all
The PC Twin family is based on Gemalto?
PC Core
® hardware and firmware, which means it can handle all types of ISO7816- compatible smart
cards without compatibility problems. It is user-friendly, and operating or using it
requires no technical expertise. The PC Twin family will happily blend with all
main environments (Windows ® 98, 2000, Xp, Vista, Linux & MacOS X), all types of
card, and most
makes of computer. It will readily adapt to new smart-card services, as they become
available.
The PC Twin has successfully passed the Microsoft Windows
Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL)
test session and is eligible for the "Designed for Microsoft Windows" logo for
both Windows 2000, Xp and Vista.
The PC Twin has got the EMVCo letter of approval
( # 11607 0103 400 20 LGA) is listed as an EMV Level 1 compliant 4.0 device in the
EMVCo
web site.
The PC Twin has successfully passed the Compliance program of
the USB organisation and is listed as a full compliant USB device in the
USB web site.
The PC Twin has successfully passed the Mondex®
Type Approval Testing (ChipSafe and ChipSafe+), related to level 1 of
Mondex Purse environment. PC Twin is now Mondex Purse Approved (version:
Purse 2).
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PC Twin Technical Specifications
Feature
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Description
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| Smart-card
interface |
- support ISO7816 Class A, B and C ( 5V, 3V, 1.8V )
- support all ISO7816 TA1 parameters ( up to 344 Kbds )
- Read from and writes to all ISO 7816-1,2,3,4 microprocessor cards,
T=0 and T=1 ( memory cards support upon request )
- Short circuit detection
- smart card connector is 8 friction contacts - ISO location,
guarantee for 100,000 insertion cycles - EMV level 1 mechanically
compliant.
- embossed smart cards are supported.
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| Human
Interface |
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Host Interface
PC Twin [ in serial mode ]
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- Serial RS232
- programmable transmission from 9600 to 115,200 bps
- cable 1,5 meter long
- serial DB9 connector
- power supply thru PS/2 port
- operating voltage 5V +/- 10%
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Host Interface
PC Twin [ in USB mode ]
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- USB full speed (12 Mbps)
- Hubless
- cable 1,5 meter long
- USB type A connector
- Power supply thru USB port
- operating voltage [ 4.4 --> 5.5V ]
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Operating/storage Temperature
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- Operating : +5°C / +55°C
- Storage : -25°C / +60°C
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| Electro-magnetic standards |
- Europe: 89/336/CEE guideline
- EN 55022: 1994 Class B
- EN 50082-1: 1994
- EN 50081-1: 1992
- EN 61000-4-2: 1995
- EN 61000-4-3: 1997
- EN 61000-4-4: 1995
- Comply with EMC directive 89/336/EEC
- USA: FCC part 15 Class B
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| Security levels |
- Europe: EN60950
- IEC950: 1991, Am,3: 1995
- USA: UL1950 third edition, dated July 28, 1995
- Canada: CSA950
- Comply with low voltage directive 73/23/EEC
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| Standards/certifications |
- ISO/IEC 7816-1,2,3,4: IC Cards with contacts
- EMV level 1, EMV96 version 3.1.1 (EMV2000 under completion at
printing time)
- Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL), Windows Logo
Program WLP 2.0
- USB 2.0 full speed (PC Twin in USB mode)
- CCID - Chip card Interface device 1.0 ( PC Twin in USB mode)
- Mondex® level 1 Purse Approved (version: Purse 2, ChipSafe and
ChipSafe+)
- ROHS compliant
- WEEE marking
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| Operating systems
supported |
- Windows 98, 98SE, Me, 2000,Xp and Vista 32 bits
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Xp, Server & Vista 64 bits
- Windows 95OSR2 and NT4 for PC Twin in serial mode
- Linux Redhat WS3.0, WS4.0, Suse Professional 9.2, DEBIAN
"Sarge"
- Win CE 4.1, 4.2, 5.0 for PC Twin in USB mode
- Mac OS X (10.3 and higher) for PC Twin in USB mode
- Drivers for PC Twin
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API's |
- Microsoft PC/SC environment with associated drivers
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