
Atmel QTouch Library
QTouch Library Peripheral Touch Controller
USER GUIDE
Description
Atmel
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QTouch
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Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC) offers built-in hardware
for capacitive touch measurement on sensors that function as buttons,
sliders, and wheels. The PTC supports both mutual and self-capacitance
measurement without the need for any external component. It offers superb
sensitivity and noise tolerance, as well as self-calibration, and minimizes the
sensitivity tuning effort by the user.
The PTC is intended for autonomously performing capacitive touch sensor
measurements. The external capacitive touch sensor is typically formed on a
PCB, and the sensor electrodes are connected to the analog charge
integrator of the PTC using the device I/O pins. The PTC supports mutual
capacitance sensors organized as capacitive touch matrices in different X-Y
configurations, including Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) sensor grids. In mutual
capacitance mode, the PTC requires one pin per X-line (drive line) and one
pin per Y-line (sense line). In self-capacitance mode, the PTC requires only
one pin with a Y-line driver for each self-capacitance sensor.
Features
• Implements low-power, high-sensitivity, environmentally robust
capacitive touch buttons, sliders, and wheels
• Supports mutual capacitance and self-capacitance sensing
• Up to 32 buttons in self-capacitance mode
• Up to 256 buttons in mutual capacitance mode
• Supports lumped mode configuration
• One pin per electrode - no external components
• Load compensating charge sensing
• Parasitic capacitance compensation for mutual capacitance mode
• Adjustable gain for superior sensitivity
• Zero drift over the temperature and VDD range
• No need for temperature or VDD compensation
• Hardware noise filtering and noise signal de-synchronization for high
conducted immunity
• Atmel provided QTouch Library firmware and QTouch Composer tool
Atmel-42195M-Peripheral-Touch-Controller_User Guide-07/2016