Addressing the market for advanced payment options, Infineon Technologies released a reference design for a next-generation biometric smart card architecture. The design leverages the company's SLC38BML800 security controller with additional GPIO-interfaces and the latest TrustedBio solution from IDEX Biometrics. Enabling fingerprint authentication with low latency, high accuracy, and power efficiency, the reference design combines the fingerprint sensor, secure element, power management, and communications to reduce solution complexity.
“This new design provides significant improvements at the card system level, which allow easy integration into existing hot lamination card manufacturing processes. Therefore, the architecture increases card performance, while reducing manufacturing complexity at the same time,” said Tolgahan Yildiz, head of the Payment and Ticketing Solutions product line at Infineon. “The additional interfaces and the energy efficiency of our security controller allow industrialization of high performance biometric smart cards. This fingerprint solution is yet another proof point for our continuous innovation to enable easy to use, easy to integrate, highly accurate and cost effective biometric smart cards.”
“Strong demand drivers for card-based fingerprint authentication are in place for both issuers and users of payment cards,” said Vince Graziani, Chief Executive Officer of IDEX Biometrics. “However, to date, the relatively high cost of manufacturing biometrically enabled smart cards has inhibited mass-market adoption. With TrustedBio, IDEX Biometrics has integrated a patented, highly differentiated polymer sensor into a single device delivering proprietary image capture, processing, and matching capabilities, as well as power management functions. No other biometric solution on the market offers this level of integration.”
Well-suited for payment, ID, and access, TrustedBio offers accurate authentication results (FRR/FAR and PAD performance), and with the SLC38BML800, biometrically authenticated transactions can be accomplished in less than 500 milliseconds.