Demand for the increased protection of personal data has caused asignificant rise in the profile of smart cards, and this willcontinue to be a major growth area with secure mobile communicationand e-commerce applications . An understanding of the structure andmanufacturing of smart cards is key to the continued development ofintelligent systems. First published in German, Haghiri andTarantino have produced the standard reference on the structure ofsmart cards and the technologies for embedding chips into smartcards. Detailed coverage of the practicalities and mechanics ofsmart card manufacture will appeal to a range of softwaredevelopers, practitioners and students from within the electronics,security, and communications arenas. * Details the structure and manufacturing processes of smart cards,an area largely omitted from other recent publications. * Coverage of the full range of techniques applied to thedevelopment and production of smart cards. * Presents an overview of the development of smartcards and therange of their evolving applications.weiterlesen