| Follow us on Twitter |
The free kit is available for download now from the Microchip Touch Sensing Design Center at www.microchip.com/mtouch and provides full access to the source code, so designers can customize the algorithms and easily integrate them into their main application.
Touch sensing is fast becoming an alternative to traditional push-button user interfaces, because it requires no mechanical movement, and enables a completely sealed and modern-looking design. Expanding beyond the consumer market, touch sensing is beginning to take hold in medical, industrial and automotive applications for reasons such as aesthetics, maintenance, cost and cleanliness. Microchip enables engineers to add this leading-edge user interface to their designs, without the cost of fee-based licensing and royalty agreements. The Company’s full source-code solution further enables design engineers to integrate touch sensing functionality with their existing application code in a single microcontroller, thus reducing the total system cost associated with current solutions.
“Microchip is enabling touch sensing for our customers by providing them with a royalty-free platform to start development of their own applications,” said Steve Drehobl, vice president of Microchip’s Security, Microcontroller and Technology Development Division. “Our customers can optimize their own solution without having to pay for costly licensing and royalty agreements. By giving our customers full access to the software, we provide them with the flexibility and capability to add their own value.”-Microchip Technology
Posted September 19th, 2007 by harminka
