Smart Card Console and Emulator v.1.2.2.0
Smart Card Console and Emulator is a smart card console which allows sending ISO 7816 commands (APDU) to real smart cards and which supplies a virtual reader with a virtual smart card for training with ISO 7816.
The Console/Emulator is supplied together with the book: "Programmazione delle Smart Card" di Ugo Chirico

Installation

Run the file VSCEmuSetup.exe and follow the installation wizard.

Console

The following picture shows the console that allows to send APDUs to the smart card:



At top right there is a combo-box to select a smart card reader.
To use the virtual smart card select “Ugo’s Virtual Smart Card Reader”.
A top left there are the command fields CLA, INS, P1, P2, LC, DATA to set the APDU to send.
Send button sends the APDU to the samrt card.
Reset button sends the reset signal to the samrt card.

The virtual smart card

The emulator supplies a very simple smart card compliant with ISO 7816 part 4 specification. Such a virtual smart card has been implemented purely to show the behaviour of real smart cards. Altough it respect the ISO 7816 specification, the virtual smart card support only a limited set of APDUs, and some of them has been simplified, or implemented only in part, to simplify the study. The refence manual reports all APDUs supported by the virtual smart card.