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Emulators and Testers

In developing software for a smart card, there can be a testing and debugging phase between running your smart card program in a simulator and running it on the smart card itself. In this development phase, you run your program on a chip emulator or tester.

Chip emulators and testers are special-purpose hardware rigs that contain the actual chip in the target smart card, but instrument the chip in such a way that you can still examine the internal state of the chip and single-step your program.

Unfortunately, the capabilities of emulators and testers that make them so useful to software developers also make them very useful to smart card hackers (see Table 6.9). You may encounter some difficulty in getting an emulator or tester for the smart card chip for which you are developing code.

Table 6.9. Emulators and testers.
Product Company Telephone WWW Email Processors

CAD Tester ADV
Technologies
+33 1 41 08 33 33 worldserver
.oleane.com/adv/
came.htm
came
@activcard
.fr
DryICE Hi-Tech +61 7 3354 2411 www.hitech.com.au hitech
@htsoft
.com
80C51
DS-XA
In-Circuit
Emulator
Ceibo +972 99 555387 www.ceibo.com inter-
national
@ceibo
.com
80C51XA
Emulators Ashling +353 61 334466 www.ashling.com
ashling@iol.ie 80C51XA,
68HC05
ET-iC51 Emulation
Technology
+1 408 982-0660 www.emulation.com sales
@pmail.
emulation
.com
80C51
iceMaster Metalink +1 602 926-0797 H8, 80C51,
6805
In-Circuit
Emulator
Hitex +1 408 298-9077 www.hitex.com info@hitex
.com
80C51
In-Circuit
Emulator
Nohau +1 408 866-1820 www.nohau.com 8051XA
In-Circuit
Emulator
Lauterbach +1 508 303 6812 www.lauterbach.com info&
#64;lauterbach
.com
H8, 8051XA
logICC Schlumberger +33 1 4746 5943 www.slb.com/et/ smartcards
@slb.com
Any smart
card
Mini-
Emulators
Digicash +31 20 592-9999 www.digicash.com info@
digicash
.nl
SC21/SC27 83C852
MMS and
MMEVS
Motorola +1 512 502-2100 www.mot-sps.com Any Motorola
chip
SmarTest Aspects
Software
+44 131 556-4897 www.aspects-sw.com sales
@aspects
-sw.com
GSM SIMs
Universal
Emulators
Dr. Krohn
& Stiller
+49 89 610000-12 www.iceworld.de info
@iceworld
.de
80C51,
6805,
TMS-370


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