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Capacitive Touch Sensors

For capacitive touch key applications, both QST and S-Touch families of products offer the following benefits:

  • full digital architecture and smart functions
  • extremely tolerant to environmental changes
  • advanced automatic calibration Adjacent “touched key” determination mechanism
  • low external component – small footprint
  • low power consumption
  • reliable technologies
  • operating voltage: 1.8 - 5.5 V

The QST family of products uses a pure digital, firmware-based solution that implements Quantum's patented and field-proven charge-transfer QProx™ capacitive technology. Key features are:

  • QTouch™ technology for simple touch panels of up to 12 keys
  • QMatrix™ technology for high key counts in small packages
  • support for any combination of buttons, wheels and sliders
  • advanced processing techniques such as drift compensation, auto-calibration, and noise filtering
  • adjacent key suppression (AKS™) to ensure maximum useability
    and control integrity
  • multifunction capabilities for contemporary user interfaces
S-Touch's finite state machine (FSM) architecture uses a dedicated and complete IC approach with its own distinctive features for a fast time-to-market solution.
  • robust and sensitive capacitance detection engine based on differential capacitance measurement

  • design flexibility using configurable automatic impedance calibration, adjustable touch variance and environmental variance for optimized calibration

  • direct user access to program the instruction sets and parameter settings

  • very fast IC sampling time (typically 2 ms) ensured by an optimized FSM architecture

  • innovative processing techniques to enhance user control:

  • - advanced data filtering (AFS)
    - environmental tracking calibration (ETC)
  • touch sensor solution with very low power consumption (typically 5 µA per key)

  • ultra small packages for low key devices (QFN16 - 2.6 x 1.8 mm for 8 channels)
 
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Product News
Press announcement, June 26, 2007
STMicroelectronics Introduces Lowest-Power-Consumption Touch Sensor for Portable and Cost-Sensitive Applications
 
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