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Touch and 3D Gesture Control

Product catalog summary
Overview
Microchip provides a wide range of touch and 3D gesture control solutions suitable for consumer, industrial, and automotive markets. Their offerings include single buttons, touch pads, screens, and 3D gesture controls, all developed internally to ensure high quality and reliability.
Technologies
  • Adaptive noise avoidance
  • Water-tolerant touch interfaces
  • Hardware touch engines on microcontrollers
  • Low-power wake-up on touch
  • Mutual and self-capacitive sensing
  • Auto calibration and parallel acquisition
Use Cases
  • Buttons, sliders, and wheels
  • Proximity and hands-on detection
  • Automotive functional safety touch
  • 3D gesture sensing
Product Offerings
  • Turnkey Touch Products: Ready-to-use controllers for touch buttons, sliders, wheels, pads, and screens.
  • Microcontroller Integration: PIC, AVR, and SAM devices with on-chip touch peripherals.
  • Touch Libraries: Supported by Microchip’s code configurators for easy integration.
Performance Advantages
  • Noise Robustness: High signal-to-noise ratio and tested against various standards.
  • Water-Tolerant Touch: Reliable operation on wet surfaces.
  • Low Power: Efficient power consumption for various applications.
  • Safety-Certified: Products certified for functional safety standards.
2D Touch Sensing
  • Solutions for touch pads and screens with features like surface gesture detection and low power consumption.
  • 2D Touch Libraries: Available for PIC, AVR, and SAM microcontrollers, supporting water-tolerant touch and dual-finger gestures.
maXTouch Controller Family
  • Designed for robust operation in various environments, supporting multi-finger and gloved-finger operations.
  • Outstanding noise immunity and moisture tolerance.
  • Supports various industrial designs and embedded touch gestures.
Specifications
The document details several maXTouch devices, including their screen size compatibility, package type, interface options, and AEC-Q100 compliance. Automotive-grade devices are noted for their compliance with Automotive SPICE Level 3 certification.
Gesture Control
The MGC3030/3130 and MGC3140 gesture controllers are highlighted for enabling 3D gesture control using GestIC technology, featuring full surface coverage, lighting independence, and low power consumption.
Development Tools
Microchip offers development kits and tools, such as the MTCH10X Evaluation Board and maXTouch Studio Development System, to aid in the development and debugging of touch applications.
Evaluation Kits
A variety of evaluation kits are available for different maXTouch devices, providing necessary hardware and software for testing and development.
Support and Training
Microchip provides extensive support and training resources, including technical support, evaluation samples, and training centers worldwide.
Global Presence
The document includes contact information for Microchip's sales offices across the Americas, Europe, and Asia/Pacific regions.
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Touch and 3D Gesture Control MicrochipTouch and 3D Gesture Control www.microchip.com/touch

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Touch and Gesture Welcome to the powerhouse of touch. Microchip offers a compelling solution for every touch use case – from single buttons to touch pads and touch screens to proximity detection and 3D gesture control for the consumer, industrial and automotive market. Microchip’s touch solutions excel based on our deep knowledge and experience. Regardless if you choose a touch turnkey product or a touch library for a microcontroller – you always benefit from decades of touch experience. Microchip’s touch product line covers all use cases in touch - incl. functional safety relevant applications...

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Touch and Gesture Why Capacitive Touch? From your customers perspective, the user interface is the product. Innovative, modern and attractive. In short, high-selling products all have one thing in common—they all have a user-friendly touch interface. Adding touch to your product adds value to your product. Interfaces with mechanical push buttons have several moving parts, significantly decreasing reliability. Mechanical buttons also require complex design and assembly as well as a major investment in tools. You’re ready for touch on a global scale. Touch has matured to include water-tolerant,...

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Buttons, Sliders Wheels and Proximity Microchip’s Performance Advantage Regardless if you chose a turnkey touch product or a touch library to integrate with your code—you will benefit from Microchip’s performance in touch. Noise Robustness Noise, also known as conducted noise, is a common challenge for touch implementations. Microchip provides state-of-the-art software and hardware filters to overcome noise - meaning to enable touch buttons to work through the noise. Noise-avoidance technologies, such as frequency hopping are used. • High Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) • IEC61000, EFT and BCI tested,...

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Buttons, Sliders Wheels and Proximity Turnkey Touch Products Our turnkey touch products pave a straight path for you to implement touch to your user interface. The MTCH products enable you to replace mechanical buttons without any further changes at your product- touch, plug and play. With a streamlined and touch-focused functionality, as well as simple GUI-based configuration, turnkey touch products offer the shortest time to market - ideal for you first touch design. Starting with a single button, to sliders, wheels and up to 64 buttons—Microchip offers fast and reliable turnkey touch solutions....

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2D Touch Pads on MCUs 2D Touch Sensing – Touch Pads and Touch Screens Microchip, as the leading provider in touch technology, offers a wide range of solutions for 2D touch pads and touch screens for the consumer, industrial and automotive markets. Our touch libraries focus on lowest-power 2D touch pads, high level of microcontoller integration and on-chip surface gesture detection (swipes, taps, pinch/zoom)—features needed in wireless headphones, remote controls or small touch pads on steering wheels. 2D Touch Libraries – Touch Pads on Microcontoller 2D Touch on microcontoller is a solution for...

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2D maXTouch® Controller Family Turnkey Solution for Multi-Finger Robust and Reliable Touch Pads and Screens The maXTouch controller family provides a leading projected capacitive technology for touchscreens and touch pads. It supports single-finger, multi-fingers and gloved-finger operation. Regardless of the operating environment—hot or cold, dry or wet, noisy power supply or strong radiating surrounding devices—maXTouch controllers are designed for robust and reliable operation without compromising touch performance. The maXTouch portfolio covers solutions for all touch surfaces and touch screens...

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2D maXTouch Controller Family Commercial and Industrial Devices Typical Screen Size Dedicated members of the maXTouch device family are specifically designed for automotive applications. These devices are AEC-Q100 compliant and fully automotive qualified. They are available as Grade 3 (-40 to +85°C) or Grade 2 (-40 to +105°C) variants. Microchip’s maXTouch automotive controllers are the first touch controllers to carry the Automotive SPICE Level 3 certification. All automotive maXTouch devices are available in QFP packages. www.microchip.com/touch www.microchipdeveloper.com/touch:summary

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3D Tracking and Gesture Sensing MGC3030/3031 and MGC3140 Gesture Controllers with GestIC® Technology The MGC3030/3130 are single-chip solutions to enable 3D gesture control in almost any product, such as wireless speakers, radios, light switches and remote controls. The MGC3030/3130 are optimized for embedded usage, require no host intelligence or resources and come with a complete gesture portfolio. The MGC3140 is the first gesture controller, qualified for Automotive AEC-Q100. The Benefits of GestIC Technology Similar to capacitive touch sensing, GestIC Technology uses E-field sensing to detect...

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Touch Development Tools Touch Development Tools To accelerate your development, Microchip offers easy-to-use touch development tools. For more information and full list of touch development tools, please please visit www.microchip.com/touch. Turnkey Touch Development Kits Microcontoller with Touch Development Kits The MTCH10X Evaluation Board provides an out-of-the-box experience for performance and the robustness of Microchip touch solutions. Standalone Touch Evaluation Kits These kits provide an easy platform for evaluating and developing a variety of capacitive touch sense applications using...

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maXTouch Evaluation Kits All of our evaluation kits include a dedicated sensor with the flex connector and the electronic control board. Some evalutation kits include also converter board from either SPI or l2C to a USB interface to enable easy connectivity to the host, like your PC. All evalutation kits include the host software as well as the maXTouch Studio Light Development Tool. Supported ICs Sense Nodes Sensor Matrix Sensor Details ATEVK-MXT225TAT MXT225TD-A 224 19X x 11Y 3.5 inches Touchpad, PCB with 2 mm plastic lens ATEVK-MXT641 TAT M[X><“r(3S411T[:A’ 64° 30X...

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