Products in the SpringCard CSB6 Family (CSB6, Prox'N'Roll, EasyFinger and CrazyWriter) are PC/SC compliant smartcard readers.
The following documents and free software are usefull to start working with your new SpringCard PC/SC reader.
A short introduction
PC/SC is the de-facto standard to interface Personal Computers with Smart Cards (and smartcard readers/writers of course), and is available on most operating systems, including Windows and Linux.
There are plenty of documents and tutorial regarding the PC/SC API are available on the web, including the reference documentation on MSDN. Anyway, if you're still unfamiliar with the API, we've written a short manual that is your recommended starting point :
SpringCard's Simplified documentation of the PC/SC API
As PC/SC has been designed for smartcards -and at a period where smartcards were only contact cards-, there's nothing immediate when it goes to contactless cards not to mention contactless memory cards (such as Mifare for instance).
Fortunately, SpringCard CSB6 family makes it easy to work with those cards, thanks to an embedded APDU interpreter, that translates "classical smartcard commands" into efficient sequences to read and write contactless memory cards. The relevant documentation is to be found in this manual :
CSB6 Family : PC/SC vendor specific attributes and commands
(This manual also provides information on accessing reader's serial number, driving the LED/buzzer and the RF field, and more).
Software
SpringCard PC/SC Quickstart
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SpringCard PC/SC Quickstart is a set of sample applications, you may download for free. You may use the applications free of charge, but you must observe the terms of our license. The source code of those applications is also available for registered customers, within the free PC/SC SDK.
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PC/SC DiagPC/SC Diag is a quick'n'dirty software to exchange APDU with smartcards or contactless cards, and also control commands with SpringCard PC/SC readers. Source code is available in the PC/SC SDK (Win32 native, written in C++ with MFC). |
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C# ScriptorC# Scriptor is a basic PC/SC scripting tool, to send APDU commands to a smartcard using a batch file or manual entries. Source code is available in the PC/SC SDK (requires the .NET framework, written in C#). |
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SCardToolkitSCardToolkit is an advanced software to explore any smartcard on the APDU level. SCardToolkit is highly expandable, yet comes this an impressive list of the APDU supported by current contactless cards. Source code is available in the PC/SC SDK (requires the .NET framework, written in C#). |
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Open-source PC/SC software
gScriptor for WindowsgScriptor is a basic PC/SC scripting tool, to send commands to a smart card using a batch file or manual entries. gScriptor is open-source software released under GPL ; authors are Lionel Victor and Ludovic Rousseau (official project homepage). gScriptor is written in Perl+GTK. Our setup program for Windows includes the Perl+GTK runtime.
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Other resources
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SCardSoft is a team of software developers based in Ukraine. They offer Smart Card ToolSet PRO, an usefull application to work with smartcards at low level, and also SCard X Easy, an ActiveX control that makes it easy to work with smartcards from virtually any application or language supporting the ActiveX technology.
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