8/20/2019 Microchip Announces the Industry's First Development Kit for Integrated 2D Projected Capacitive Touch

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News Release

Microchip announces the industry's first development kit for integrated 2Dprojected capacitive touch (PCAP) and D gestures on displays

The 2D/3D touch and gesture development kit allows designers to easily integrate Microchip's innovative 2D and 3D solutions in their applications

March 2!"#$ %e& Delhi$ %A DA * MC+P, – Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, has announced the industry's firstdevelopment it for integrated !" pro#ective capacitive touch $P%&P and (" gesture recognition ondisplays – the 2D- D .ouch and /esture Development 0it $")*+!+* . The it ill provide designerseasy access to Microchip's patented !" and (" estI% / sensing technology, allo ing them to easilyintegrate !" multi-touch and (" hand gesture recognition into their display applications. The use of electric-field 0ased technology ena0les hand and finger gestures to no 0e trac ed 0oth on the displaysurface as ell as a0ove at a distance of up to !+ cm. In addition, the development it provides an easy-to-use, 1out-of-the-0ox1 experience that re2uires no code development. Parameterisation, diagnosticsand optional settings are done through &urea !.+, a free do nloada0le graphical user interface $ 3I .

The !"4(" Touch and esture "evelopment 5it features Microchip's latest P%&P controller,MT%67(+(, ith the M %(*(+ (" gesture controller. It includes an eight-inch transparent touch sensor to ena0le rapid prototyping for idely availa0le displays. The MT%67(+( provides multi-touch

coordinates ith a five-finger scan rate of *++ 68. In addition, it has an integrated multi-finger surfacegesture suite hich ma es it a good fit 0oth for operating system $9: driven applications as ell asem0edded systems ithout an operating system.

The M %(*(+ ith Microchip's a ard- inning estI% technology as the first electrical-field- 0ased (" gesture controller to offer lo -po er, precise, and ro0ust hand position trac ing at !++ 68. Inaddition, estI% technology utilises advanced 6idden Mar ov Models to ensure that the recognition ratefor (" hand gestures is a0ove ;

8/20/2019 Microchip Announces the Industry's First Development Kit for Integrated 2D Projected Capacitive Touch

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