title: Reading a smart card (8 bit or 16 bit?)
body: <p>I'm working on a driver for reading smart cards (PC/SC), and I've been reading the data in a forced 8-bit manner, even if the card itself might have a 16-bit chip. I have two questions, one is: how would I tell whether the card conforms to a 16-bit or 8-bit architecture, and the other is: would there be a performance boost to treating the 16-bit system as 16-bit?</p>