Hi Sebastien,

On 7/7/10, Sébastien Lorquet <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Looks very good.
>
>> > If I were you, I would use a GPIO to detect card insertion. This event
>> can
>> > be used to trigger card activation, reset sequence, ATR reading and
>> optional
>> > PPS exchange. Do you plan to connect your reader to a PC via a serial
>> port?
>> > TxD and RxD are still free on PD0 and PD1.
>> >
>>
>> Thanks, am, there is another hardware usart bellow it, and yes, my
>> intention is to connect the reader to the computer.
>>
>> However, given your and drasko's clarifying comments, I'm feeling a
>> bit like this is not the chip I want to use anymore? I mean, I'm gonna
>> study the whole thing at hardware level, and study whether this chip
>> will leave me room for getting anywhere I ever wanted to in terms of
>> the iso implementation/smartcard development.
>>
>> If it doesn't, I have some ST7XX samples arround (arm7 chips from
>> st-microelectronics), an (iirc) believe one of them has builtin
>> smartcard support, including clock frecuency switching at runtime.
>>
>> My main concern is really to have a processor powerfull enough so as
>> let me do it by software. It's more fun to me achieve a software
>> implementation that I made, than reading the ds and setting a few
>> registers with a given recommended hardware-setup beneath, though
>> having that on-chip is an advantage also, I could use it when I wanted
>> to.
>>
>> Totally agree. Looks like your atmel is OK provided you just add a 3.57
> crystal clock. You can still make a bitbanged uart if you wish, and use an
> irq as a timer.
>
> an ARM SoC looks a bit overkill for this task, a 8 bit micro is enough for
> this task. it will be funnier, easier to understand and easier to reproduce.
>
> As a side note, to sample the IO line, ISO7816 requires to read the line at
> the middle of the bit. You're not required to average more than one read.
> Just have your irq run a twice the bitrate so that you can read the bit in
> the middle, and toggle the IO line at the right moment for sending.
>
>

Yes, it definetely looks like this is going to be hable to handle it,
at least t=0.

>
>> Well, thanks, I'l keep you informed guys!
>>
>> Hope so! This project is interesting!
>

Thanks, I will.

> Regards
> seb
>

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