Abstract
In today’s complex world the need to maintain the security of information or physical property has become more important and difficult task. Developing a trusted authentication system is inevitably linked to the number of passes an individual undergoes checking, before the permission to access the information is granted. Biometric techniques are best at verification process, where the features of human beings are used for verification. Fingerprint verification is a one of the biometric processes where a particular person claims his/her identity using his/her fingerprint. In this project I have designed an embedded application for Fingerprint verification system. Implementation of this project is carried on the ZF Microsystems based single board computer. It has Cyrix Media GX based processor and coprocessor which has a bus speed of 180MHz. This board provides all features present in conventional computers by consuming less power, it is useful in building embedded applications and board design cost is very low. It supports operating system such as Windows 3.11, 95/98, and Red Hat Linux 4.0.