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Microchip Human Interface Solutions
Human Interface Solutions
Adding a modern, intuitive user interface to your design
improves its ease-of-use, functionality and aesthetics.
Graphics displays, touch interactivity and audio prompts
add a modern, updated look and feel to any design
.
Engineering teams that are tasked with creating human
interfaces for new or legacy designs need solutions
that create a high-impact user interface incorporating
the latest in touch sensing and graphical display
technologies. These solutions must be easy to integrate
and lower total system cost.
Touch sensing interfaces such as keys/sliders and touch
screens are fast becoming an alternative to traditional
push button switch user interfaces owing to their many
benefits—elegant and stylish designs, lower manufacturing
costs achieved by lowering costs of molds, tooling and
assembly, and increased reliability via fewer moving
components. Application designers migrating to touch
sensing interfaces require robust, low-cost and power-
efficient solutions that are easy to integrate.
Digital displays improve the user interface of just about
any application. Segmented LCDs have historically been
a popular choice of display technology and continue to
grow in a variety of medical and industrial applications.
In recent years there has been a significant rise in the
use of graphical displays such as TFT, OLED and CSTN
in consumer, appliance and automotive applications.
Users prefer intuitive menus, vivid graphics, touch panel
interaction and in some case the ability to interact
remotely with a system. Designers migrating toward
graphical displays face several challenges such as cost of
components associated with driving the display, complexity
of software needed for updating graphics, battery life and
remote connectivity.
If you are looking to add newer and feature-rich interfaces
to your products in an aesthetically pleasing manner,
Microchip has a broad portfolio of solutions that include
touch sensing and display technologies. Microchip delivers
these latest advancements as complete hardware and
software solutions to get your design to market faster at a
lower total system cost.
Key Highlights
Touch Sensing Solutions
Keys & Sliders
■ Longer battery life with eXtreme Low Power MCUs
■ Sensing through metal, plastic or glass
■ High noise immunity and low emissions
■ Lower system cost with broad MCU portfolio
■ Free software library enables easy integration and
touch-sensing GUI speeds up development
■ Get started quickly with low cost development kits
Touch Screen Controllers
■ Turnkey analog resistive controllers for lowest
system cost
■ Highly fl exible projected capacitive solution with
low cost MCU implementation
■ Fully processed and reliable touch coordinates
■ Multi-touch and gesture capable
■ Low power solutions with wide operating voltage
■ Royalty-free source code solutions with complete
starter kits
Display Controller Solutions
Segmented LCD
■ Direct drive of inexpensive displays
■ Up to 480 segments
■ Integrated analog for sensor applications like
temperature sensing in thermostats
■ Integrated touch sensing function
Graphical Displays
■ Up to WVGA (800x480) resolution
■ Up to 24 bit per pixel
■ Free Graphics Library and Graphics Display
Designer GUI
■ PIC24 “DA” family features integrated graphics
acceleration and display controller
■ High performance 32-bit MCUs with integrated
Ethernet and CAN for remote interfaces
■ Integrated USB OTG and mTouch sensing
Audio Processing Solutions
■ Generation of tones, alarms and musical notes
■ Recording and playback of audio information
■ Graphic equalizer
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