Inside Secure has announced the availability
of their Open NFC protocol for the Google Android 2.3 ‘Gingerbread’
smartphones.
Produced by semiconductor solution
firm Inside Secure, Open NFC claims to offer chip
vendors, smartphone manufacturers, wireless carriers and software
developers a way to implement NFC functionality independently of
the underlying NFC hardware.
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Open NFC becomes the first
hardware-independent, open-source NFC protocol stack for the
Android operating system.
“Open NFC relies on a separate, very thin and
easily adaptable hardware abstraction software layer, which
accounts for a very small percentage of the total stack code,
meaning that the Open NFC software stack can be easily leveraged
for different NFC chip hardware,” said Philippe Martineau,
executive vice president of the NFC business line for Inside
Secure.
“This has tremendous cost, time-to-market and
flexibility advantages for NFC chip vendors, smartphone
manufacturers and software developers who would otherwise have to
contend with rewriting the hardware-specific elements of the
Gingerbread NFC protocol stack.”
The latest Open NFC solution is said
to simplifiy interoperability and provide the NFC ecosystem with a
consistent NFC application programming interface (API) and
functionality.
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