Atmel Enables New Touchscreen Solutions

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Announced Introduction of New Family of maXTouch Products...

Atmels maXTouch solutions have been developed to provide uncompromising capacitive touch capability combined with the industrys lowest power consumption and unsurpassed configurability to exceed todays user interface requirements. The first device in the family, the mXT224, has 224 nodes that allow it to accurately report the positions of unlimited, simultaneous touches and it can completely redraw the screen every 4/1000 of a second (4 mS). The mXT224s large number of  nodes and fast performance makes it the worlds first touchscreen solution suitable for advanced touch screen functionality, such as rejection of unintended touches, stretch/pinch and rotate gestures, handwriting and shape recognition such as face detection on  mobile phones, mobile Internet devices (MID) and netbook screens surpassing 10 inches.

By integrating the entire capacitive sensing circuitry on-chip, these maXTouch products provide a fully integrated single-chip solution without the need for externa

l components to support the capacitive sensing, minimizing the cost and PCB footprint requirements. Multiple mXT224 touchscreen solutions can be used to provide smaller interspatial distances between touches on larger screens. Products utilizing the advanced mXT224 touchscreen solution are currently progressing in design at several leading handset, netbook and other consumer product OEMs.

By 2013, worldwide demand for touch screen modules will exceed $6.4 billion, making touch interfaces the fastest growing segment in the displays industry. Multi-touch solutions are delivering significant advantages across a broad range of applications, and Atmel appears to have a compelling product for a very hot market. Well definitely be watching as they roll it out, said Joe Abelson, Vice President, Displays Research, iSuppli Corporation.

The mXT224 is the first capacitive touchscreen solution able to support not just finger touch but also stylus, fingernails and gloves for dr