The Smart Card/SIM Card (SC) PICtail™ Daughter Board (AC164141) is an expansion board used for evaluating, reading and writing data on Smart Cards and Sim cards. This daughter board requires and Exporer 16 Development Board, or PIC18 Explorer board to complete the board configuration. Additionally, Microchip also offers the free Microchip Smart Card ISO-7816 software library and application notes to support the development of Smart Card applications.

To get started, a compatible PICDEM™ demonstration board is required. In general, a board is compatible if it has a PICtail Daughter Board interface expansion port or a PICtail Plus Board interface expansion port. When connecting the SC PICtail Daughter Board to a board with the PICtail Plus connector, like the Explorer 16 Development Board, the connector should be inserted in the first slot of the demonstration board (aligned with Pin #1) to communicate using the UART1 module.

Each of the Smart card signals have an outbound pin on the SC PICtail Daughter Board to check the signal status during the application development life cycle. Apart from this, if the user wants to connect the Smart card signals to different port pins of the microcontroller, then the signal wires can be directly connected from the microcontroller to the appropriate outbound pins on the SC PICtail Daughter Board.

Key Applications: Smart Card/Sim Card applications