Upgrade your product to include an innovative, modern and attractive user interface. Replacing mechanical push buttons with a touch- or gesture-controlled interface is an excellent way to add value and advanced features to your application, increase customer appeal and improve your product’s performance and reliability.

Microchip offer solutions for every type of use case, from single buttons to touchpads and touchscreens to proximity detection and 3D gesture control for a huge assortment of consumer, industrial and automotive applications. Microchip's products include turnkey capacitive touch controllers, touch libraries for implementing touch sensing on most PIC®, AVR® and SAM microcontrollers (MCUs) and single-chip solutions for adding gesture recognition to almost any product. Microchip can help you conquer design challenges like overcoming noisy environments, reducing power consumption in wearables and other power-sensitive designs, supporting functional safety requirements and implementing touch in wet environments or for gloved fingers. You can leverage Microchip's deep knowledge and extensive experience in providing touch and gesture solutions over many years, plus Microchip's global technical support team and easy-to-use development tools and resources, to simplify and speed up your development of your touch-enabled products.

Capacitive Touch Solutions for Buttons, Sliders, Wheels and Proximity

Turnkey Capacitive Touch Controllers and Microcontrollers with On-Chip Touch Peripherals

It’s time to add capacitive touch to the user interface in your next product. Microchip offer two easy-to-implement options for creating buttons, sliders and wheels or enabling proximity detection that will enhance your product’s user experience. With devices that support up to 64 buttons, Microchip's easy-to-configure turnkey touch controllers streamline the process of replacing mechanical buttons in your product. Or, you can choose one of Microchip's microcontrollers (MCUs) with dedicated Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs), which offload the touch functionality from the Central Processing Unit (CPU) to free up system resources and reduce power consumption. Like Microchip's turnkey devices, these MCUs support both mutual- and self-capacitance measurements.

Capacitive Touch Solutions for Touchpads and Touchscreens

Boost Your Product’s User Experience

Find out how easy it is to implement the user experience your customers are used to and have come to expect from their smartphones and tablets. Whether your design requires a small 1” single-touch-point trackpad or a 24” multi-touch touchscreen, Microchip's exceptionally fast and water-/noise-robust touch sensing technology enables you to quickly implement advanced gesture recognition to speed your product’s time to market. Microchip's wide portfolio of touch solutions is backed by Microchip's extensive experience in serving and supporting thousands of touch customers over many years. Microchip also have a comprehensive, trained and certified network of design partners who can provide you with extra support and assistance with your touch design.

2D/3D Touchscreens With Proximity Detection and Air Gestures

Enable Modern and Safe Human Machine Interface (HMI) Systems With Microchip's maXTouch® and GestIC® Technologies

Enhance your product with additional features beyond simple touchscreen HMI systems. You can easily add proximity detection to enable additional functions such as system wake-up or offer air gestures that allow the user to safely interact with the system without needing to touch the screen. Microchip's two-chip solution that combines controllers featuring Microchip's maXTouch touchscreen technology and GestIC technology enables you to create a totally new user experience. You can connect both controllers to the same host using the same I2C serial interface with two different slave addresses.

Both controllers are AEC-Q100 qualified with temperature ranges up to +105°C (maXTouch technology) and +125°C (GestIC technology).

Key Features

Up to 20 cm proximity detection

Up to 12 cm 3D air gesture support

2D touchscreens up to 17" (mXT2912TG) or 13" (mXT2113TG)

Differential mutual sensing that supports thick, multi-finger gloves

Thick, glass-equivalent cover lens up to 10 mm (5 mm PMMA)

CISPR 25 Level 5 support for automobile electromagnetic interference

AEC-Q100 automotive quality certified

Target Applications

Automotive center consoles: add gesture controls for performing common operations such as answering a phone call, adjusting audio volume or changing cabin temperature

Public-facing touchscreens: reduce virus transmission risk on devices such as POS terminals, food/drink dispensers, vending machines, car/bike/scooter/boat rental terminals, elevators and fitness equipment)

Gesture controls for home electronics: enhance convenience and cleanliness of kitchen appliances, thermostats, alarm panels and smart speakers/displays

3D Gesture Control with GestIC® Technology

Add simple and intuitive 3D gesture control to almost any product with the world’s first electrical near–field (E-field) 3D gesture and motion tracking controllers. Based on Microchip's patented GestIC® technology, these single-chip solutions perform gesture detection and motion tracking without requiring host processing. They come with a complete gesture portfolio that enables command input with natural hand and finger movements in free space to create innovative, compelling and user-friendly interfaces in a variety of embedded applications, including:

Automotive

Notebooks/PC peripherals

Audio products

White goods, appliances and air conditioning control

Home automation

Light switches

Industrial and medical switches

Electronic readers

Game controllers

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