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SCL010/01X REFERENCE MANUAL 10
2.4. Definition of various terms and acronyms
Expansion
APDU Application Protocol Data Unit
ATR Answer to Reset, defined in ISO7816
ATS Answer to select, defined in ISO/IEC 14443
Byte Group of 8 bits
CCID Chip Card Interface Device
CID Card Identifier
CL Contactless
DFU Device Firmware Upgrade
DR Divider receive: used to determine the baud rate between the reader to the card
DS Divider send: used to determine the baud rate between the card to the reader
FeliCa™ Sony contactless technology standardized in ISO18092, technology underlying the
NFC Forum tag type 3
Jewel/Topaz Innovision contactless technology, technology underlying the NFC Forum tag type
1
LED Light emitting diode
MIFARE The ISO14443 Type A with extensions for security (NXP)
NA Not applicable
NAD Node Address
NDEF NFC Data Exchange Format: data structure defined by the NFC Forum for NFC
Forum tags.
NFC Near Field Communication
Nibble Group of 4 bits. 1 digit of the hexadecimal representation of a byte.
Example: 0xA3 is represented in binary as (10100011)b. The least significant
nibble is 0x3 or (0011)b and the most significant nibble is 0xA or (1010)b
P2P Peer - to - Peer
PCD Proximity Coupling Device
PC/SC Personal Computer/Smart Card: software interface to communicate between a PC
and a smart card
PICC Proximity Integrated Chip Card
PID Product ID
Proximity Distance coverage till ~10 cm.
PUPI Pseudo unique PICC identifier
RFU Reserved for future use
RF Radio Frequency
STCIII Smart card reader controller ASIC from SCM Microsystems
USB Universal Serial Bus
VID Vendor ID
(xyz)b
Binary notation of a number x, y, z 0,1
0xYY The byte value YY is represented in hexadecimal