Electronic passport

Delivering integrated, ready-to-go, highly certified electronic passport solutions to increase national security and facilitate international travel

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Overview

An electronic passport is a secured travel document with an embedded chip that securely stores the holder's personal and biometric data, such as photo or fingerprints. This technology allows for faster and more accurate identity checks, reduces wait times at border control, and strengthens protection against passport fraud or misuse. Infineon delivers integrated, ready-to-go, highly certified solutions for your electronic passport application.

Benefits

  • Broadest hardware portfolio
  • High computing performance
  • Highest contactless performance
  • Large memory size
  • Java and native solution offering
  • Thin and robust modules
  • Highly certified
  • Continuous innovation

About

Enhancing international security with secured electronic passports

Passports are evolving rapidly from handwritten documents with glued-in photos to fully digitized electronic documents. The use of digital certificates has the potential to increase national security. In addition, machine-readable electronic IDs speed up passport control through automated border control gates. However, biometric passports also present a number of challenges. Interoperability and trust are essential so that authorities can instantly recognize authentic passports from other countries. In addition, electronic passport chips must support upcoming International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards such as LDS 2.0, which will enable the storage of both personal biometric data and travel records like visas on the chip. Durability and high-performance contactless capabilities are also key success factors.

Trusted partner for electronic passport applications

Today, Infineon delivers the chips for 60 percent of all global passport projects. We deliver award-winning security architectures that are fit for the future, already offering today’s fastest passport processing speeds. Other factors in our favor include a high degree of standardization for seamless interoperability, wide protocol support, and ICAO specification compliance.

State-of-the-art technologies for tomorrow's ePassports

Our security microcontrollers offer digital hardware security Integrity Guard, SOLID FLASH™, very high bit rates (VHBR), contactless competence, and Common Criteria EAL 6+ security certification, making it a perfect match for today’s governmental security requirements.

Our integrated solutions—with security microcontrollers, packages, Java and Native operating systems, applets, and middleware—offer the best combination of hardware and software for easy design-in and fastest time-to-market. Customers all over the world rely on our highly integrated, ready-to-go, certified platforms, scaling from low-end deployments to high-end multi-application schemes.

Our portfolio at a glance:

Solution families:

Security microcontroller families:

Enhancing international security with secured electronic passports

Passports are evolving rapidly from handwritten documents with glued-in photos to fully digitized electronic documents. The use of digital certificates has the potential to increase national security. In addition, machine-readable electronic IDs speed up passport control through automated border control gates. However, biometric passports also present a number of challenges. Interoperability and trust are essential so that authorities can instantly recognize authentic passports from other countries. In addition, electronic passport chips must support upcoming International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards such as LDS 2.0, which will enable the storage of both personal biometric data and travel records like visas on the chip. Durability and high-performance contactless capabilities are also key success factors.

Trusted partner for electronic passport applications

Today, Infineon delivers the chips for 60 percent of all global passport projects. We deliver award-winning security architectures that are fit for the future, already offering today’s fastest passport processing speeds. Other factors in our favor include a high degree of standardization for seamless interoperability, wide protocol support, and ICAO specification compliance.

State-of-the-art technologies for tomorrow's ePassports

Our security microcontrollers offer digital hardware security Integrity Guard, SOLID FLASH™, very high bit rates (VHBR), contactless competence, and Common Criteria EAL 6+ security certification, making it a perfect match for today’s governmental security requirements.

Our integrated solutions—with security microcontrollers, packages, Java and Native operating systems, applets, and middleware—offer the best combination of hardware and software for easy design-in and fastest time-to-market. Customers all over the world rely on our highly integrated, ready-to-go, certified platforms, scaling from low-end deployments to high-end multi-application schemes.

Our portfolio at a glance:

Solution families:

Security microcontroller families:

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