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Human Interface Solutions Guide

Human Interface Solutions Guide
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Human Interface Solutions Guide

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Overview
The QuickSense portfolio by Silicon Labs provides a variety of human interface solutions that are optimized for low power consumption, robust performance, and excellent detection capabilities. These solutions include capacitive touch, proximity, and ambient light sensors suitable for both consumer and industrial applications.
Key Features
  • Low Power Consumption: Efficient operation in active, sleep, and wake-up modes.
  • Robust Tools and Support: Comprehensive hardware and software platforms for easy setup, configuration, and debugging.
  • Excellent Performance: Superior detection range for touchless sensing, ideal for power-saving applications.
Product Details
  • Capacitive Sensing Technology: Includes features like wake-on-slide, gesture recognition, battery meter, and LED dimmer functionalities.
  • Charge-Timing CDC Sensing Technology: Offers the fastest CDC with high sensitivity, capable of measuring capacitance on various materials.
  • Mutual-Capacitive Sense Technology: Features a multi-touch resolve block with 16 simultaneous high-speed SAR ADCs, providing low scanning current and a wide dynamic range.
  • Infrared Sensing: Si114x sensors offer touchless interface sensing with ultra-sensitive photodiodes, fast measurement time, and advanced gesture recognition.
Development Support
Silicon Labs provides complete development tools, including prototyping boards, USB adapters, and software stacks for networking support. The QuickSense Studio software facilitates easy programming and real-time monitoring of touch and proximity sensing devices.
Product Selector Tables
Detailed specifications for various microcontrollers are provided, highlighting features such as flash memory, MIPS, RAM, communication interfaces, and ADC capabilities.
Specifications
The document lists multiple MCUs with specifications such as flash memory size, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second), RAM, digital I/O, communication interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART), timers, PWM/PCA, internal oscillators, ADC channels, touch channels, temperature sensors, and package types. For example, the C8051F713 features 8 kB flash memory, 25 MIPS, 512 bytes of RAM, and supports I2C, SPI, and UART communications.
Product Lines
  • Low-Power Capacitive Touch MCUs: Models like C8051F990 and C8051F991 offer features such as 12-bit ADCs and multiple touch channels.
  • Low Pin-Count Capacitive Touch MCUs: Models like C8051F800 and C8051F801 feature 10-bit ADCs and various package options.
  • Optical Sensors: Sensors like Si1102 and Si1143 are designed for proximity and ambient light sensing, with temperature ranges from -40 to 85 ºC.
  • Multi-Finger Touch Screen Controller MCUs: Products such as C8051F760 and C8051F765 support screen sizes up to 7.0 inches and feature SPI, SMBus/I2C, and UART communications.
Standards and Certifications
Silicon Labs' products comply with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO/TS 16949 standards, ensuring quality management and environmental management systems are in place.
Additional Tools
The document mentions the IR Range Estimator utility, which assists in determining the detection range and signal-to-noise ratio for proximity sensors.
Contact Information
Silicon Laboratories Inc. is located at 400 W. Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78701, with contact number 512-416-8500. More information can be found on their website at www.silabs.com.
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HUMAN INTERFACE PRODUCT SELECTOR GUIDE SPRING 2012 www.silabs.com Lowest Power Consumption The QuickSense™ family has been designed from the ground up to be the most power-efficient in the industry. The end solution has been optimized to be the industry leading, across all modes necessary to be truly “low power”: active mode, sleep mode, and wake-up time. Robust Tools, Software and Support Complete tools to help you throughout the entire design. Both infrared and capacitive sensing solutions include hardware and software platforms to easily set up and configure, compile and debug a project. Excellent Performance Optimized for power efficiency, the QuickSense family enables touchless sensing with superior detection range. These priority and ambient light sensors are ideal for applications that can benefit from system power savings, tamper detection/proofing, motion sensing and gesture interpretation. SP RING 2 012 QuickSense portfolio of human interface solutions www.silabs.com/quicksense Engineering for a mixed-signal world.

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3 / H U M A N I N T E R FA C E S E L E C T O R G U I D E Human Interface Products REQUEST SAMPLES AND DOWNLOAD DOCUMENTATION AT www.silabs.com/QuickSense Silicon Labs’ QuickSense™ human interface product portfolio includes capacitive touch, proximity and ambient light sensors. Capitalizing on our leadership in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, the QuickSense family of products offers industryleading capacitive and infrared sensing devices to meet the demands of advanced user interfaces, all in one portfolio The QuickSense capacitive touch controllers are ideal for consumer...

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H U M A N I N T E R FA C E S E L E C T O R G U I D E / 4 QuickSense™ Mutual-Capacitive Sense Technology At the heart of the C8051F76x is the multi-touch resolve (MTR) block. The block is a true capacitance to digital converter with 16 simultaneous high-speed SAR ADCs. The ADCs are 10-bit converters and with the help of the accumulator, can expand the conversion to a full 16-bits. This is particularly valuable because the RISC core, the DMA and the MAC are all able to efficiently process 16-bit data. The result is a surprisingly low 800 µA scanning current and a very wide dynamic range. In addition...

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5/ HUMAN INTERFACE SELECTOR GUIDE QuickSense Infrared Sensing Sil 14-x Multi-LED Proximity and Ambient Light Sensors: www.silabs.com/sensors The QuickSense Si114x family is the industry's most sensitive and lowest power active infrared proximity and ambient light sensor solution. The monolithic Si1 Kxfamily of devices features an all digital l2C control interface and up to three infrared LED drivers in an impressively small 2 mm x 2 mm clear QFN package. Capable of controlling one, two and three infrared LED systems, developers have the freedom to implement one-dimensional systems with a range...

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HUMAN INTERFACE SELECTOR GUIDE / 6 QuickSense Capacitive Sensing C8051F7xx/8xx/99x Capacitive Sense MCUs: www.silabs.com/captouchsense The C8051F7xx/8xx family of high pin-count MCUs for high I/O embedded systems offer a robust, accurate, responsive and easy- to-configure touch sensing feature. The family enables developers to add sophisticated touch sense interfaces to a wide range of consumer and industrial electronic products. The C8051F99x MCUs combine industry-leading low power technology of the with the fast and accurate capacitive touch sensing features of the QuickSense capacitance to...

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7 / H U M A N I N T E R FA C E S E L E C T O R G U I D E Turnkey Support Development Support Silicon Labs offers complete tools to help designers throughout the entire project. Hardware and software platforms are available to help easily set up and configure, compile and debug a project. Full documentation and a broad range of third-party compilers and development tools are available. Software stacks provide networking support for multi-node metering networks. Software simulation tools can estimate power consumption and determine expected battery life. www.silabs.com/devkits Complete development/prototyping...

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HUMAN INTERFACE SELECTOR GUIDE / 8 QuickSense Studio Silicon Labs' QuickSense touch and proximity sensing devices are all easily programmable through the QuickSense Studio development software. The Configuration Wizard simplifies the integration of human interface technologies in end products, allowing engineers to set up capacitive buttons, sliders and wheels by using an intuitive software GUI that generates all the C code required for the selected functions. The studio enables the configuration of infrared proximity and ambient light sensors through a comprehensive library of application programming...

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11 / HUMAN INTERFACE SELECTOR GUIDE QuickSense™ Multi-Finger Touch Screen Controller MCUs: www.silabs.com/captouchsense Optical Sensors REQUEST SAMPLES AND DOWNLOAD DOCUMENTATION AT www.silabs.com/sensors QuickSense™ Optical Sensors IR Range Estimator: www.silabs.com/ir-range-estimator The IR Range Estimator utility helps you determine if the object you intend to detect with the Si 1Kx proximity and ambient light sensor would be within range, and if the SNR (signal to noise ratio! threshold is high enough to trigger a detection event. To calculate whether or not you have adequate SNR, simply...

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Silicon Labs' products are designed and manufactured Quality Management System Design and Manufacture of Integrated Circuits Certificate Registration Environmental Management System Design and Manufacture of Integrated Circuits Certificate Registration Quality Management System for Manufacture of Integrated Circuits and Related Products forAutomotive Applications Product group from well-managed forests, controlled sources and recycled wood or fiber JT§^^ www.fsc.org Cert no. SW-COC-001730 01996 Forest Stewardship Council © 2012, Silicon Laboratories Inc. QuickSense, Silicon Laboratories and the...

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