User's Manual

SCL010/01X REFERENCE MANUAL 17
3.6. Applications
3.6.1. General
SCL010/01X is a transparent reader designed to interface a personal computer host supporting
PC/SC interface with 13.56MHz user tokens like public transport cards, contactless banking cards,
NFC forum tags, electronic identification documents – e.g. e-passports, e-ID cards, driving
licenses etc.
Those user tokens can have several form factors like credit cards, key fobs, NFC mobile phones
or USB dongles like SCT3511 that SCM Microsystems markets.
SCL010/01X itself handles the communication protocol but not the application related to the
token. The application-specific logic has to be implemented by software developers on the host.
3.6.2. Applications provided by SCM Microsystems
SCM Microsystems does not provide payment or transport applications.
SCM Microsystems provides a few applications for development and evaluation purposes that can
function with SCL010/01X. They are available within
the software development kit. There are many tools
provided but the two main ones are:
 The NFC forum tag reader/writer is a
standalone application that enables the
user to read and write NFC forum
compliant records into NFC forum
compatible tags. It is an easy to use tool to
configure rapidly NFC forum tag
demonstrations.
 Smartcard Commander version 1.1
provides NFC forum record parsing
functionality of NDEF records in XML
format as well as scripting functionality
which can be very useful for developers to
develop and debug their applications