New Fingerprint Subsystem Brings Biometrics to the Mass Market

Analog Devices, AuthenTec, OpenSystems Publishing

Kevin C. Kreitzer, Alan Kasten

Technology Paper

July 2004

Fingerprint sensor provider AuthenTec, Inc. needed a more powerful microprocessor for their next generation Embedded Developers Kit (EDK)—one that could perform ever more complicated matching algorithms in less than half a second, yet was cheap enough for use in consumer products. Surprisingly, the solution came from a traditional DSP company.

Reprinted with permission from Embedded Computing Design/Spring 2004. Article © OpenSystems Publishing.

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