EMV L1 Contact Card Electrical

Certified EMV L1 contact card electrical test tool validated by EMVCO performs current, voltages measurement, and simulates different worse case scenarii to test contact...
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Use Cases


This EMVCo test tool will typically be used in the following context :

  • debug of contact smartcards, before official type approval
  • type approval of contact smart cards

What is EMV L1 Contact Card Electrical ?

Our EMV L1 Contact Card Electrical test tool allows to perform all electrical test cases defined in the EMV L1 test specifications. Therefore you can perform pre-certification before submitting a smart card to an EMVCo laboratory for type approval. This solution is an EMVCo certified test tool. It is deployed in the majority of EMVCo test houses all around the world. EMVCo has published a reference document of test cases allowing to ensure the compliance with their standards. But also to garantee general interoperability between contact smartcards and readers, in the business context of payment. The tool we propose completely implements the test cases defined inside the EMV 4.3a version (electrical and protocol). The main features of this test tool are:
  • total implementation of the test cases defined inside the 'EMV Card Type Approval Level 1 Electrical and Protocol Test Cases Version 4.3a' document
  • test operation totally automated
  • automated generation of the test reports
  • tool widely used at EMVCo validation laboratories for debug and type approval
  • integrated viewer, for a better failure analysis

Technical Data

This tool contains all electrical test cases defined in the ‘EMV Card Type Approval Level 1 Electrical and Protocol Test Cases Version 4.3a’ document.

The tool will generate different physical test conditions, thanks to the MP300 TC3 tester versatility, and make sure that the card is able to handle those conditions.

Then, the tool will perform some physical measurement, related to voltages, current, immunity to spikes…

Hardware platform :

  • MP300 TC3
  • MP-ESC + extension cable (necessary for climatic chamber testing)

Test case coverage : 100% of the test cases defined inside the ‘EMV Card Type Approval Level 1 Electrical and Protocol Test Cases Version 4.3a’ document, including :

  • Supply Voltage, Reset, Clock and Input/Output
  • I/O Transmission Voltage
  • I/O Transmission rise/fall times
  • I/O, CLK, RST perturbations
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