Touch and 3D Gesture Control
Touch and 3D Gesture Control
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Touch and Gesture
Welcome to the powerhouse of touch. Microchip offers a compelling capacitive touch solution for every touch use case – from single buttons to touchpads and touchscreens 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 of whether you choose a touch
turnkey product or a touch library for a microcontroller, you always benefit from decades of touch experience.
Turnkey Touch
CAP/AT42QT/MTCH
Proximity, Button
Slider, Wheels
Touch Libraries
PIC®/AVR®/SAM MCUs
Multi Touch Screens
maXTouch® Technology
Touchpads/
Touchscreens
2D Touch Surface Library
PIC/AVR/SAM MCUs
Free Space
Gesture Control
3D Gesture
GestIC® Technology
All technologies behind our touch solutions are developed in house.
Technologies
• Adaptive noise filtering
• Water-tolerant touch buttons,
sliders and wheels
• Water-tolerant touchpads
and -screens
• Hardware touch measurement peripherals (CIPs) on
microcontrollers
• Driven shield for increased
sensitivity, noise shielding and
water tolerance
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• PCB track length
compensation
• Low-power wake-up on
touch
• Mutual capacitive sensing
• Self-capacitance sensing
• Autonomous touch sensing
• Parallel sensing
• Auto calibration
Use Cases
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Buttons
Sliders
Wheels
Proximity
Hands-on detection
Lowest power touch pads
Touchscreens
Touchpads with gesture
detection
• Keyless entry door handle
• Appliance safety touch
• Automotive functional safety
touch
• 3D gesture sensing
www.microchip.com/touch
www.microchipdeveloper.com/touch:start
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
interface.
Adding touch to your product adds value to your product.
Interfaces with mechanical push buttons have several moving
parts, significantly decreasing reliability and tooling cost.
Why Touch With Microchip?
With over a decade of experience in automotive touch,
Microchip is the leading provider of robust touch solutions.
Furthermore, our touch tool chain ensures that your touch
journey is as short as possible, minimizing time to production.
Microchip is also aware that you operate globally. We will provide
on-site, native language support in your design centers as well
as at your manufacturing locations. We call it local support on a
global scale.
Turnkey Touch Products
Turnkey touch controllers provide the fastest and easiest way
to upgrade from mechanical buttons to modern touch buttons
or displays with touch. Our turnkey touch products are ready
to use for implementation of touch buttons, sliders and wheels,
touchscreens and proximity solutions for consumer, industrial
and automotive applications. No programming experience is
needed, just connect the sensor and apply power. All touch
controllers communicate to the host via standard serial interfaces, such as I2C, SPI or USB as well as GPIO.
C: 70 M: 10 Y: 0 K: 15
PMS: 639C
Microcontroller With Touch Integration
Microchip offers a wide range of 8-, 16- and 32-bit devices
with our PIC®, AVR® and SAM MCU and MPU series. All of
these platforms enable high-performance touch with dedicated on-chip touch Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs).
Data Visualizer
Microchip’s touch library is supported by all of Microchip’s
code configurators, enabling you to easily access Microchip’s
decades of experience in capacitive touch design. To save
code space, enhance usability and speed up the development
of your touch project, Microchip provides the touch library individually tailored to your use case via MPLAB® Code Configurator, MPLAB Harmony 3 and Atmel START.
maXTouch® Studio
Implementing touch on an MCU has never been easier!
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Buttons, Sliders, Wheels and Proximity
Microchip’s Performance Advantage
Regardless of whether you choose a turnkey touch product or a touch library to integrate with your code—you will benefit from
Microchip’s performance in touch.
Noise Robust Touch
Automotive Touch
Home Appliance Safety
True Water Tolerant Touch
Long-Term Touch Provider
Ease-of-Use
Very-High Button Count
Low Power
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IEC 61000-4-6
Conducted noise
Radiated noise
ESD
BCI tests
Emission/CISPR-25
• 20+ years experience in
touch
• Serving all use touch use
cases
• Risk mitigation by choosing an established solution
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Automotive touch screens
Automotive touch MCUs
Automotive Design Center
Functional Safety Design
Center
• Local (language) support
on global scale
• Fast development with
code configurators
• microchipdeveloper.com,
your touch solution center
• IEC60730 certified
solutions
• Touch library for MCUs
• Touch Turnkey products
• Dedicated solution to
enable noise robust and
fast touch
• Cost down due to reduced
chip count
• Support for long feeding
lines
• Outdoor use, rain tolerant
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No lock-out – touch
remains functional
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Buttons, sliders, touchpads,
touchscreens
• Waterproof touch with
Metal Over Cap (MoC)
• Low power flat rate < 5 μA
• Power consumption
doesn’t scale with button
count
www.microchip.com/touch
www.microchipdeveloper.com/touch:start
Buttons, Sliders Wheels and Proximity
Turnkey Touch Products
Our turnkey touch products pave a straight path for you to implement touch in your user interface. The products enable you to
replace mechanical buttons without any further changes at your product, touch, plug and play. With a streamlined and touchfocused functionality, as well as simple GUI-based configuration, turnkey touch products offer the shortest time to market - ideal
for your first touch design. Starting with a single button, to sliders, wheels and up to 64 buttons—Microchip offers fast and reliable
turnkey touch solutions.
MTCH10x
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1 to 8 sensing channels
Digital output
Water-tolerant touch
Simple tuning process
Direct button replacement
CAP1xx
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3 to 14 sensing channels
I2C interface
Water-tolerant touch
LED driver—high resolution PWM
AT42QTxxxx
• 1 to 64 sensing channels
• UART/SPI/I2C interface
• EN/IEC 60730 certification on select
devices
Touch on Microcontrollers – Microchip’s Touch Libraries
Microchip offers complete touch libraries and industry leading tools to enable touch sensing on most
PIC, AVR and SAM devices. All platforms support touch in hardware through Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs). These touch enabled microcontrollers ensure a smooth integration with any other task as
well as low power and water tolerance for your touch designs.
Benefits of MCUs With Touch
Our MCUs feature dedicated CIPs to offload touch functionality
from the MCU core.
• Hardware Capacitive Voltage Divider (HCVD)
• ADC with Computation (ADCC)
• Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC)
Touch Development Tools
Microchip supports touch configuration right from the Integrated Development Environment (IDE). You can configure your
touch design easily and the IDE generates ready-to-use code
- tailored to your design.
• MPLAB X IDE features MPLAB Code Configurator (MCC) for
8-bit PIC devices
• MPLAB X IDE features Harmony 3 for 32-bit SAM/PIC32
devices
• Atmel Studio 7 features Atmel START
These touch modules support self- and mutual-capacitance
measurements, providing you with great flexibility. Due to their
autonomous operation, CPU resources and power consumption are minimized, even for high key count designs. With
built-in automatic tuning and calibration, Microchip provides the Our development environments are also available in the cloud,
giving you the fastest access to the broadest MCU portfolio
highest quality of touch even in harsh environments.
with touch.
• 8-, 16- and 32-bit platforms
• mplabxpress.microchip.com
• Smallest packages include WLCP
• www.microchip.com/start
• Cost-opttimized production with SOIC/SSOP
• From 6-pin to 144-pin devices, up to 1 MB Flash memory
The Data Visualizer connects directly to your application and
• On-chip integration options include USB, CAN, FD, LIN,
allows real-time analysis of touch signals for quick touch tuning
IrDA®, wireless protocol stack, segmented LCD and C: 70 M: 10 Y: 0 K: 15to optimal performance.PMS: 639C
graphics
• Automotive certified MCUs in 8/16/32-bit
Data Visualizer
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2D Touchpads on MCUs
2D Touch Sensing – Touchpads and Touchscreens
Microchip, as the leading provider in touch technology, offers a wide
range of solutions for 2D touchpads and touchscreens for the consumer, industrial and automotive markets.
Our 2D touch library focuses on lowest power touchpads, high level of
microcontoller integration and on-chip surface gesture detection (swipes,
taps, pinch/zoom)—features needed in wireless headphones, ear buds,
remote controls or small touchpads on for example steering wheels.
2D Touch Library – Touchpads on MCU
A microcontoller is a highly integrated, single chip solution for smaller touchpads and touchscreens. The key element is the cost
efficient integration of the user interface into the main controller of your device. Instead of a dedicated touch controller your (already existing) main MCU running the 2D touch library from Microchip that function. Our 2D touch surface libraries are available
for 8-bit PIC and AVR microcontoller as well as 32-bit SAM microcontollers; three low-power and cost-efficient platforms.
2D Touch for Embedded Devices
Customers these days expect a “smartphone-like” user
interface on many products including wearable/IoT devices,
remote controls, audio devices, in their cars and more. These
expectations are paired with requirements such as low power
consumption, small footprint and feature integration to enable
new form factors:
• Headphones
• Remote controls
• VR/AR head sets
Features
• IoT – home automation (connected
light switches, thermostats)
• Smart speakers (home assistants)
• Touchpads on steering wheels
Our 2D Touch Surface Library supports water-tolerant touch pads as well as dual-finger gestures such as
pinch/zoom. Microchip provides all you need to elevate the user experience of your embedded product. In
addition, we provide on-chip surface gesture recognition—enabling truly intuitive user interfaces. The 2D
Touch Surface Library brings phone-like user interface elements to embedded devices – without you investing
into the hardware ecosystem of a phone.
Position Tracking
• Single and dual finger tracking
• Water tolerant touch
• 100 Hz+ report rate
Surface Gestures
• Double tap, triple tap (single and dual finger)
• Long press (single and dual finger)
• Swipe and swipe and hold (single and dual finger)
• Rotations
• Pinch/zoom
We deliver the 2D Touch Surface Library to your project, tailored to your needs
through our code configurators. Touch pad support is built into MCC,
MPLAB Harmony 3 and Atmel START.
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www.microchip.com/touch
www.microchipdeveloper.com/touch:start
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-finger 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
up to 24" diagonal size. Additionally, I2C, SPI and USB communication interfaces
are available. maXTouch controllers embed best-in-class and proven touch
algorithms which ease the touch system development and significantly reduce
time to market.
Exceptional Touch Performance
maXTouch technology combines the best of mutual and self-capacitance
sensing method to ensure optimal touch performances.
Moisture Tolerance
• No false touch in the presence of water
• Reliable finger tracking through water droplets
Accuracy and Speed
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Up to 16 concurrent touch tracking
Up to 250 Hz reporting rate with active noise filtering
Below 1 mm linearity and accuracy
Best edge performance
Support for Various Industrial Designs
• Thick front panel of glass or plastics
• Non-rectangular shape
Glove Support
• Multi-gloved finger tracking
• Up to 5 mm glove thickness
Embedded Touch Gestures
• Single-finger gesture such as tap, double-tap or flick
• Dual-finger gesture such as pinch and rotate
Outstanding Noise Immunity
maXTouch technology has superior Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), which enables you to successfully combat various sources of
electromagnetic interferences such as:
• Injected current noise
• Display radiated noise
• Backlight and motor radiated noise
• Fast transient current
maXTouch devices are built on a highly parallel sensing architecture and carry multiple hard-wired analog and digital filters.
Combined with a high-performance and low-power CPU core, maXTouch devices are capable of maintaining a fast reporting rate
and excellent touch performances in the presence of severe electromagnetic noise sources. Additionally, all maXTouch devices are
designed to meet high Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) requirements.
maXTouch devices have an unmatched track record for touch panels in the automotive, home appliances, medical and industrial
markets that have successfully passed the industry-related EMC standards.
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2D maXTouch Controller Family
Commercial and Industrial Devices
Typical
Screen Size
Device
Package
ATMXT144U-MAU
38-pin QFN
ATMXT144U-UU
36-pin WLCSP
3–7"
ATMXT336U-MAU
56-pin QFN
5–10"
ATMXT640U-CCU
88-lead UFBGA
ATMXT1066T2-C2U
144-lead UFBGA
(HDI)
ATMXT1066T2NHU
117-lead UFBGA
(non-HDI)
ATMXT1664T3-C2U
162-lead UFBGA
ATMXT1664T3-CCU
136-lead UFBGA
ATMXT2952TD-C2U
162-lead UFBGA
1–4"
9–12"
10–16"
14–24"
Automotive-Grade Devices
Interface
HID
(Windows®)
Passive Stylus
Gestures
No
Single- and
dual-finger
Yes
No
No
I2C
Yes
I2C and USB
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.
Typical Screen Size
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Device
Package
1–4"
ATMXT225TD-A
100-pin TQFP
4–6"
ATMXT449TD-A
100-pin TQFP
6–8"
ATMXT641TD-A
100-pin TQFP
8–10"
ATMXT1067TD-A
128-pin TQFP
9–11"
ATMXT1189TD-A
144-pin LQFP
10–13"
ATMXT1665TD-A
144-pin LQFP
13–16"
ATMXT2113TD-A
144-pin LQFP
16–20"
ATMXT2912TD-A
176-pin LQFP
Interfaces
I C and SPI
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AEC-Q100
Grade 3
(–40 to +85˚C)
Grade 2
(–40 to +105˚C)
2D Gestures
Single- and dual
finger gestures
www.microchip.com/touch
www.microchipdeveloper.com/touch:start
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 gestures. Electrodes remain invisible behind the
device housing, allowing an aesthetically pleasing industrial design
without the need for holes or other cut-outs typically required for
cameras or infrared-based systems. Further benefits include:
• Full surface coverage, no blind spots
• Lighting independent
• Build in adaptive noise filtering
• Only gesture solution with built-in auto wake/sleep
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