Contactless smartcard and terminal testing (ISO 14443-3)
The most famous specification defining contactless smartcards is the ISO/IEC 14443-3 specification. This specification is totally independant from the application level, and is overloaded by other test specifications, for banking applications. Industrials who are not involved in this business, but who want to perform protocolary and physical testing to their product will be very interested in the turnkey solutions Micropross has to offer. We propose packaged solutions, including hardware, automated software, and technical support and assistance.
Digital test of contactless ISO/IEC 14443-3 smartcards (following the ISO/IEC 10373-6 specification)
Micropross proposes to the market turnkey solutions, including test hardware, software, and technical support, to perform physical and protocolary testing, following the recommendations defined in the ISO/IEC 10373-6 specification.
Our solutions include automated software, that perform automatically all test cases, and generate a report, containing multiple information such as the name of the operator, the date and time of the test session, the name of the tests that have been performed, and for each test, a summary of what has happened, the conclusion of the test, and if the test is failed, the reason why the test was failed.
The scope of the test suite covers all items described inside the ISO/IEC 14443-3, and include :
- framing in ISO/IEC 14443 type A
- framing in ISO/IEC 14443 type B
- framing in Mifare TM
- handling of T=CL protocol
- response times checking
- injection of perturbations
The test hardware that is used is the Micropross MP300 TCL2, which is the guarantee of the most accurate measurements, and the most reliable results.
Our ISO/IEC 10373-6 test solution is the ideal tool for any industrial developping a contactless smartcard or micro-module, looking for a means to ensure his product is compatible with the ISO/IEC 14443-3 specification
- completely automatised test process
- automatic generation of test reports
- high quality implementation of the test specification
- based on Micropross hardware
- open for customisation of the pre-defined test cases
Analog test of contactless ISO/IEC 14443 compliant smartcards and terminals (following the ISO/IEC 10373-6 specification)
The ISO/IEC 10373-6 specification provides methods to validate the RF aspect of the exchanges. The aim of those test cases, is to guarantee the interoperability between readers and smartcards.
This test specification describes a test apparatus, whose characteristics are totally normalised, which will be used to perform a certain number of tests. This guarantees that specialists from around the world are talking about the same thing, the same measurement methods, provided they are performed following the recommandations of the ISO/IEC 10373-6 specification. Described tests cover terminal checking, as well as smartcard verification.
Micropross proposes an implementation of this test apparatus, provided with all necessary accessories and antennas. This tool (named Universal contactless bench) allows to perform the following tests :
- smartcard tests
- load modulation measurement
- capacity of reception
- timing measurement
- alternating magnetic field (stress test performed under very high field strength)
- terminal tests
- ability of the reader to power a smartcard
- detection of the minimum load modulation signal from the smartcard for operation
- qualification of the reader operating volume
- waveform measurement
The Universal contactless bench operates in association with the MP300 TCL2, an oscilloscope, and a RF amplifier. More detail about the Universal contactless test bench can be found at the following page.
An automation software is supplied with this solution, that makes the performance of all smartcard tests completely automatic. This is a time saving solution, and also avoids any kind of mistakes during the testing process.
- automation of the tests : painful tasks are now easy
- sturdy design of the test apparatus
- supplied with all necessary accessories
- test report generated automatically