San Jose, Ca. – Atmel Corporation has just released to volume production its new maXTouch family of capacitive touchscreen controllers, capable of supporting an unlimited number of unique simultaneous ...

Electromechanical switches are simple, cheap, and widely available (Fig. 1). However, they’re also plagued with a number of disadvantages, including wear with repeated use, and the potential for ...

A finger-heating effect has been observed on mutual capacitive touch sensors with plastic film overlay. The symptom is exhibited as serious sensitivity degradation when there is a greater than 10°C ...

T his article is a follow-up to the one on SELF capacitance [1], and together, they cover the theories and design guides for the two most popular capacitive sensors, the projected and self capacitive ...

Texas Instruments (TI) announced MSP430 FRAM microcontrollers (MCUs) with CapTIvate technology, the world's lowest-power capacitive touch MCUs. The new MSP430FR2633 MCU with CapTIvate technology ...

Cautions and recommendations relative to characterizing capacitive touch screens' performance in the presence of noise from displays, power supplies, etc. Fig 1. In capacitive touchscreens, the signal ...

S parameters play a dominant role in high speed PCB simulation and verification. Generation of S parameters is relatively easy at high frequency in comparison to other parameters like Y and Z. In this ...