Design & Applications
The MIFARE® Classic family covers contactless smart card ICs used in public transport, access management, loyalty cards and many more. Fully compliant with ISO/IEC 14443 Type A, it is available with 1 KB and 4 KB memory, and 7 byte or 4 byte identifiers.
Following the broad acceptance of contactless ticketing technology and extraordinary success of the MIFARE® Classic product family, application requirements and security needs constantly increased. Therefore we do not recommend to use MIFARE® Classic in security relevant applications anymore.
Features
- Fully ISO/IEC 14443Type A 1-3 compliant, ensuring a broad marketplace of solution developers and providers
- Available with 7 byte unique identifier (7B UID) or 4 byte non-unique identifier (4B NUID)
- Versatile product portfolio, offering an optimized price-performance ratio
- 1 KB or 4 KB EEPROM
- Reduced infrastructure costs due to card and reader compatibility across all generations
- Memory access conditions freely programmable
- True Random Number Generator
- Random ID support (7 Byte UID version)
- NXP Originality Check support
- Increased ESD robustness
- Write endurance 200,000 cycles (instead of 100,000 cycles)
- Many companies with commercial products, enabling a broad and competitive supply chain
- Personalization options supporting flexibility within 4 byte- and 7 byte UID infrastructure (7B UID version only)
- Fast time-to-market
MIFARE® Classic is the pioneer in contactless smart ticket ICs operating in the 13.56 MHZ frequency range with read/write capability and ISO 14443 compliance.
It started the contactless revolution by paving the way for numerous applications in public transport, access management, employee cards and on campuses.
MIFARE® Classic family including MIFARE® Classic EV1, consist of 1K and 4k . For more information, please visit Chip Technologies.
