BS ISO/IEC 20060:2010 - Page 2

Information technology. Open terminal architecture (OTA). Virtual machine. | Status: Confirmed, Current

1 Scope This International Standard provides the specifications for the standard Open Terminal Architecture (OTA) kernel in several layers:

• — definition of the virtual machine (VM);
• — description of the services provided by the VM to terminal programmers;
• — specification of a set of tokens representing the native machine language of the VM;
• — specification of the format in which tokenmodules are delivered to an OTA kernel for processing.

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 low-level CPU-specific logical and arithmetic functions. High-level libraries, terminal programs and payment applications may be developed using these standard kernel functions.