What is the PC/SC Technology ?

The Interoperability Specification for ICCs and Personal Computer Systems (PC/SC) has been developed to ease the introduction of smart cards into the world of PCs. The main advantage of PC/SC is that applications do not have to be aware of the details regarding the smart card reader in order to communicate with the smart card. Moreover, the application can function with any reader complying with the PC/SC standard.

The PC/SC Workgroup is a committee, of which Gemplus is an active member, that is composed mainly of smart card and computer manufacturers. Microsoft has played an important role in the elaboration of these standards, due to the fact that the Windows platforms are the only ones which offer a smart card resource manager.

Abstract

This page is the Home-Page of PC/SC technology for the Gemplus Developer's web site. It is intended for smart card application developers using PC/SC.
Among other things, this page includes: 

• a list of available Technical Documents for smart card developer.
• a link to the PC/SC Support  portal for of available Software Components for Gemplus smart card readers.

Technical documentation

Gemplus Components Documentation:

This table lists the available documents, by order of growing complexity (from starters to experience developers).