CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC 20060:04 (R2007)

This National Standard of Canada is equivalent to International Standard ISO/IEC 20060:2001 (first edition, 2001-11-01). Purpose The Europay Open Terminal Architecture (OTA) consists of technology designed to facilitate implementation of Integrated Circuit Cards (ICCs) and associated terminals. The purpose of this document is to provide a specification for a standard kernel to be provided in all OTA terminals. Subject OTA defines a standard software kernel whose functions and programming interface are common across all terminal types. This kernel is based on a standard ?Virtual Machine,? which is implemented on each CPU type and which provides drivers for the terminal?s I/O and all lowlevel CPU-specific logical and arithmetic functions. High-level libraries, terminal programs and payment applications may be developed using these standard kernel functions. Additional volumes in this series describe Forth and C language bindings and compiler requirements.