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Fingerprint Cards’ Portable, Power-Efficient Embedded Biometric Solutions Now Available for TI DSPs
Fingerprint Cards joins TI’s Third Party Network.
Fingerprint Cards AB (FING B), based in Gothenburg, Sweden, today announced that it is joining the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) digital signal processing (DSP) third party network. This chip-based system will bring a simple and cost-effective user authentication solution to the global network of developers who want to include security capabilities in their portable electronic communications devices.
Fingerprint’s biometric system enables the analysis of the unique fingerprint patterns of an individual and determines their personal identity. Fingerprint Cards’ software, the Distinct Area Detection (DAD) Algorithm, is available on both TI’s TMS320C5000TM and TMS320C6000TM DSPs. This prepares the way for faster and easier customer development of biometric-enabled products in market applications concentrated around handheld computing and mobile wireless communications. Through TI’s third party network the two companies will be in a position to offer co-ordinated support to benefit mutual customers in the implementation of embedded fingerprint authentication.
Fingerprint Cards’ DAD Algorithm is one of the most compact (8Kb) fingerprint algorithms on the biometric technology market. It supports two types of compact, low-cost fingerprint sensor technology developed by Fingerprint Cards for a range of product markets including mobile electronic devices. The software’s fingerprint matching performance has been maximized, but device requirements for minimal processing power and related battery-power consumption have been accommodated to support the growing markets for security enabled technology that rely on specialised and cost-effect embedded processors.
“TI’s family of DSPs reflects the increasing importance of embedded processing in several markets. The C5000 and C6000 processors are known for their power efficiency and high performance, exactly the characteristics that make our DAD based fingerprint technology so appealing in the same mobile device markets.” according to Lennart Carlson, Fingerprint Cards’ CEO.
“As the need for secure user authentication grows, compatible solutions from TI and Fingerprint Cards will enable us to maximize our offerings to customers,” said Ram Sathappan, Biometrics product marketing manager TI. “TI is dedicated to providing a complete signal processing solution for developers of biometric technology, and the addition of Fingerprint Cards will greatly enhance the development process on our DSPs.”
For further information contact: Lennart Carlson, CEO Fingerprint Cards. 31 607820,
About the Texas Instruments Third Party Program
Fingerprint Cards is a member of the TI TMS320™ third party program, the most extensive collection of global DSP development support in the industry. With more than 600 independent companies and consultants, TI's customers have easy access to a broad range of application software, development hardware and software and consulting services. For more information on the TI third party program, please visit
www.dspvillage.ti.com/v5
Fingerprint Cards AB, quoted on the Stockholm Stock Exchange’s O-list (FING B), has developed electronic systems, which through analysis of the unique fingerprint patterns of individuals, determines their personal identity. The system is completely chip-based and reads, stores and compares fingerprint patterns without the help of any PC processor. The Company has in-house developed capacitive swipe and flatbed sensors as well as algorithms. By virtue of its smallness, low power consumption and the possibility of very low manufacturing costs, the technology can be integrated in volume products such as smart cards, PDAs and mobile phones, where the demands for such characteristics are extremely high. Other applications for the technology include access control systems for buildings and products for logon to computers and IT networks. www.fingerprints.com
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Fingerprint Cards AB
Box 2412
Östra Larmgatan 16
S-403 16 Göteborg
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http://www.fingerprints.com
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