Date: 26/03/2010

TI's kit and reference design for integrating fingerprint-sensing feature

Texas Instruments is offering its TMS320C5515 DSP based Fingerprint Development Kit at $79 USD. TI says this kit to reduce the product design cycle by 9 to 12 months.

The DSP chip inside the kit handles functions in the fingerprint algorithm such as filtering, sorting and transforming. This development kit is suggested for portable applications, including physical access control products (electronic door locks and safe boxes), USB smart keys and storage device, PC user identification, and time and attendance monitoring systems.

This kit has core board, extension board with USB 2.0 and a RS232 port to communicate with PCs, One AuthenTec swipe sensor, ATW310, and One optical sensor. A production quality demo is also available which is based on a fingerprint-matching algorithm running on the C5515 optimized to recognize prints in less than one second with a false acceptance rate (FAR) of less than .0015 percent and a false rejection rate (FRR) of less than one percent.
Simplified application source code and hardware design collateral including schematics and Gerber files, user guide and application notes are also provided.

Price: $79 USD