Semtek Innovative Solutions Corporation offers card reader components and interfaces. It specializes i n small form-factor data capture devices in magnetic stripes, smart-cards, RFIDs, and biometrics. The company also provides hardware products, including mobile handheld card readers, insertion and swipe card readers, barcode scanners, components, and mul ti-modal devices. In addition, it offers Cipher Security Module, a magnetic stripe reader assembly; Hercules Module, which is designed to protect card data; Hidden Triple DES, an encryption methodology based on Triple DES encryption; HtDesLight, a software version of Hidden Triple DES; CDMS (Cipher Device Metrics Services), a real-time and empirical security monitoring system; and Warble, a real-time methodology of determining if a card is counterfeit. Semtek Innovative Solutions' products enable handheld devices and cell phones to function as credit/debit card and data collection terminals. It serves providers of point of sale terminals, rugge dized wireless devices, points of sale system integrators , and governments. Semtek Innovative Solutions Corporation was founded in 1999 and is based in San Diego, California.