Category: Technical articles
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PC/SC on Linux and Mac OS X with Mono
One the goals of the Mono project is to make Microsoft .NET applications runnable on Unix systems. Using Mono, it is therefore now possible to maintain a single C#/.NET code base, that runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. In this context, SpringCard’s PC/SC SDK (https://www.springcard.com/en/download/find/file/pcsc-sdk) has been updated, so that it now enables…
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SpringCard PC/SC solution for Android has been released
SpringCard R&D team is proud to release a simple software solution to add support for SpringCard USB PC/SC Couplers to Android tablets (or smartphone). The software is made of two parts: SpringCard PC/SC Service for Android, a freeware application that installs directly from Google Play SpringCard PC/SC Library for Android, an open-source library that makes…
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scpcsc_feed completes MultiConf
scpcsc_feed is a command-line utility for Windows which is a companion-tool for MultiConf in case you need to configure numerous SpringCard PC/SC couplers in batch mode, or change the settings quickly without a needing a full-featured GUI. scpcsc_feed is available at https://files.springcard.com/pub/scpcsc_cfg.zip. Just unzip the archive in the folder you want, and open a command…
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New firmware for all SpringCard PC/SC couplers based on the H663 core
SpringCard has just released a new firmware version, tagged 2.00, for its H663 core. The H663 core is a versatile contactless+contact module, which supports virtually all proximity/RFID HF chip cards (ISO 14443 & ISO 15693 standards, including Mifare, Calypso, etc), NFC-enabled mobile phones or other objects (ISO 18092, peer-to-peer in initiator mode, passive communication scheme),…
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Using Mifare Classic EV1 with SpringCard PC/SC readers
NXP has recently started shipping a new generation of Mifare Classic chips, called Mifare Classic EV1 (part numbers MF1S50yyX/V1 for Mifare Classic EV1 1K and MF1S70yyX/V1 for Mifare Classic EV1 4K). The chips are 100% compliant with earlier Mifare Classic 1K and 4K, with 2 subtle differences: the kind of protocol-level ID to be used…
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rfidscan-tool : driving your Prox’N’Roll RFID Scanner’s LEDs and buzzer
The rfidscan-tool command line The rfidscan-tool command line application is available for any OS that supports libusb, HID-API or hidraw. We’ve tested it on: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 Mac OS X Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, etc) Raspberry Pi (on Raspbian distro) rfidscan-tool has been inspired by blink1-tool, the command-line application that controls…