Mobile devices use embedded processors with low computing capabilities to reduce power consumption. Since floating-point arithmetic units are power hungry, computationally intensive jobs must be accomplished with either digital signal processors or hardware co-processors. In this paper, we propose to perform fixed-point arithmetic on an integer hardware unit. We illustrate the advantages of our approach by implementing fingerprint verification on mobile devices.
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Moon et al. (2002) studied this question.