Implementation of a biometric system in an 8-bit micro controller. Industry: Security.

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• Challenge:
• Existing solution was built around a 32-bit micro controller. To decrease the manufacturing costs and the physical size the micro controller needed to be replaced by a smaller and less expensive one.
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• Description:
• * Systems development of a new program structure for a biometric system on MCU
• * Optimizing existing algorithm for code size, memory requirements, and performance
• * Implementing a new system in C
• * Debugging of a biometric system in lab environment

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• Tools, methods and technology:
• * IAR Workbench for AVR
• * Atmel AVR Studio
• * Atmel AVR16 8-bit MCU. 1 kByte RAM.
  
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• Resultats:
• A biometric system, including a data base for templates, that is able to perform registration and verification in real time on an 8-bit micro controller.