Capacitive touch is now a regular part of several industries and applications across the world. It has come up to be one of the Revolutionary changes that has replaced buttons and knobs for all our electronic equipments. It is much easier to control them now with intuitive, smooth, hassle free touch panel. Once a premium feature it is now an essential for all high end products, no consumer is now ready to accept an electronic device that is devoid of a touch control panel.
Fig.1 : The 2D Touch Surface Library BBy Microchip Simplifies Implementation of Low Power Touch Pads
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Keeping the same in mind, Microchip Technology recently introduced ann advanced 2D Touch Surface library that would allow designers to apply touch pads with much ease with the help of firm’s 8-bit AVR and PIC microcontrollers along with its 32 bit SAM MCUs. Buy any compatible MCU and the 2D Touch Surface library would be provided with it free of cost. It promises to provide an affordable solution for all kind of embedded applications. The 2D Touch Surface library by Microchip seems perfect for small touch screen and touch pads as it completely eliminates the cost of running on existing MCU on device. The 2D Touch Surface library also help in getting rid of the need for dedicated touch controller providing product designers with adaptability to add features like gesture detection and position tracking.
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