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Texas Instruments, with its broad array of mobile processing and memory technologies, has delivered radio frequency innovations for almost 20 years that help customers create contactless identification solutions for a host of authentication, tracking and security applications. TI is harnessing this experience to deliver a next generation, smart IC platform for contactless government-issued electronic identification.
Faster and More Secure IDs
Governments are under ever-increasing pressure to effectively secure borders and ensure the safety of citizens. With passports, border control documents, national IDs and even healthcare and government employee identification cards, it has become increasingly important to quickly and accurately issue and verify the integrity of such documents.
Initial smart card-based ID technologies filled an immediate and critical demand for new electronic identification to secure our borders and ensure the safety of citizens. Yet, as new security challenges arise so do issues in issuance, ease and accuracy of use, as well as in the ability to quickly address emerging security requirements. Next-generation solution requirements are being articulated – faster read/write speeds to process and create documents more efficiently, enhanced memory technology to support future security requirements, and better contactless implementations to address future usability issues.
Next-Generation Secure ID Platform
Texas Instruments' smart, secure government ID platform will set a new standard for productivity and performance. It offers faster writing speeds to create and process electronic passports and government IDs documents faster, and enhanced memory for future security requirements.
TI's new platform deploys an embedded advanced memory technology called FRAM (Ferrolelectric Random Access Memory). FRAM is a fundamental improvement over current smart card chip memory technologies, providing better reliability, faster processing speeds and lower power consumption.
Milestones and Activities
Several years in the making, our work in the market includes educating policymakers on technology and identity issues, and forming the right technology partnerships to leverage the vision of secure electronic government ID.
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