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Visa and Mastercard granted approval to Smartrac’s wire booster antenna, valid in connection with Infineon’s SLJ 32 Payment EMV solution product and Infineon`s innovative “Coil on Module” chip packaging technology.
Smartrac’s wire booster antenna has received Visa’s Letter of Approval (LoA) and Mastercard’s Component Confirmatory Statement (CCS) in connection with Infineon SLJ 32 payment solution. It is based on Infineon’s SLE 77 chip platform and incorporates a Java OS with Visa’s latest 2.8.1.g and Mastercard M/Chip Advance v1.1 applet. As of now, card manufacturers can refer to these approvals in their own product approval process and thereby significantly reduce time to market and costs. Approved products can be used until the end of 2023 for Visa and until September 2019 for Mastercard.
Visa’s LoA and Mastercard’s CCS refer to a product that is based on inductive coupling technology but, unlike most other products, utilizes a wire antenna. Since that antenna is embedded into a 100% PVC substrate, a durable mono-block card structure can be easily manufactured using a standard lamination process.
Another advantage of the wire booster antenna is its slim design. It occupies a minimum amount of space inside the card body, as the thin tracks of the antenna only require a tiny part of the volume available. This provides a higher degree of flexibility when it comes to the increasingly popular translucent card designs, and also enables full four-line embossing capabilities that do not touch and deform the antenna.
Smartrac’s wire booster antenna has received Visa’s Letter of Approval (LoA) and Mastercard’s Component Confirmatory Statement (CCS) in connection with Infineon SLJ 32 payment solution. It is based on Infineon’s SLE 77 chip platform and incorporates a Java OS with Visa’s latest 2.8.1.g and Mastercard M/Chip Advance v1.1 applet. As of now, card manufacturers can refer to these approvals in their own product approval process and thereby significantly reduce time to market and costs. Approved products can be used until the end of 2023 for Visa and until September 2019 for Mastercard.
Visa’s LoA and Mastercard’s CCS refer to a product that is based on inductive coupling technology but, unlike most other products, utilizes a wire antenna. Since that antenna is embedded into a 100% PVC substrate, a durable mono-block card structure can be easily manufactured using a standard lamination process.
Another advantage of the wire booster antenna is its slim design. It occupies a minimum amount of space inside the card body, as the thin tracks of the antenna only require a tiny part of the volume available. This provides a higher degree of flexibility when it comes to the increasingly popular translucent card designs, and also enables full four-line embossing capabilities that do not touch and deform the antenna.