Proton ChipDrive Mobile Development System from Crownhill Associates Limited

Put your knowledge of PICmicros™ and Smartcards to good use with the PROTON ChipDrive Mobile. This smart and compact handheld unit and a copy of [1] Proton PICBASIC Development Suite is all you need to develop professional Smartcard applications. The Proton-CDM is a terminal providing a ready built platform for the deployment of mobile Smart Card applications.

This development solution allows the creation of applications utilising:

• Smart Cards
  • SIM cards
  • Memory cards
  • Secure cards
• IR Comms
• Graphical LCD Display
• Keypad data entry
• Serial Memory
• Sound.

The unit is fully programmable and contains one of the latest 18F type PICmicro™ microcontrollers, offering a massive 32K of code space and a huge 1500 bytes of RAM. User interactivity is via a 16 key membrane keypad, and a 128 x 64 graphics LCD that can display both TrueType fonts and Graphics simultaneously ( including moving Graphics. Additional data storage is also catered for by the use of internal 8K bytes I²C serial eeprom, which can be expanded to 256K bytes

The unit is equipped with a standard IS07813 Smartcard socket and an internal mini SIM (GSM style) socket, IR is an option. (requires a TxRx device to be fitted), PCB pads and IR window are fitted as standard.

A 40 page booklet accompanies the PROTON ChipDrive Mobile outlining its internal circuitry, and offers many code examples written in the easily understood yet powerful language of PROTON+ PICBASIC.

In addition this package includes the very popular [2] ChipDrive Development pack for the PC, containing:

• source code examples for the PC in:
  • VB
  • Delphi
  • C
• ChipDrive Micro
• CardServerAPI and PC/SC support

Programming the unit is accomplished by a simple serial interface and bootloader, allowing the PIC program to be transferred to the CDM in seconds via a smart card, or direct ‘device’ programming of the socketed PLCC PICmicro™.

Shown below are some of the PROTON ChipDrive Mobile’s features.