Acceleration of Fingerprint Minutiae Extraction Using a VLIW Processor

Deze scriptie beschrijft het ontwerp van een embedded systeem dat de kenmerkende eigenschappen uit de afbeelding van een vingerafdruk haalt. Het betreft een hardware/software codesign, waarbij een VLIW-processor als accelerator is gebruikt.

Interrupt support on the ?-VEX processor

In this thesis, we present a design of interrupt system upon an extensible and reconfigurable VLIW softcore processor: r-VEX. This interrupt system is designed and implemented in four mechanisms to match different application requirements in terms of the hardware consumption and performance issues (interrupt latency). On the other hand, due to...

Fingerprint Verification on the VEX Processor

The speed gap between a processor realized in Semi-custom ASIC technology and a processor realized in FPGA technology is narrowing. In processor design, the approach is to define the microarchitecture of the processor and to design and implement it for executing an application domain. In this thesis, we have investigated the approach to design a...