Fujitsu Micro, Cogent partner on fingerprint biometric solutions

Fujitsu Microelectronics America Inc. (FMA) and Cogent Systems Inc. have agreed to collaborate on the development of new biometric security designs for government and commercial applications. The two companies will develop solutions for network security, physical and logical access control, positive ID for identity documents, and mobile/wireless security.

Under this new partnership, Cogents fingerprint-matching algorithms and its SecureARM biometric-matching ASIC will support Fujitsu's MBF200 capacitive single-touch fingerprint sensor and MBF310 capacitive fingerprint Sweep Sensord.

Together, Fujitsu Microelectronics and Cogent Systems will collaborate on complete solutions for fingerprint biometric security applications required for government applications and commercial users, said Mike Chaudoin, senior strategic marketing manager of the Biometric Products Group at Fujitsu Microelectronics.