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MGC3130 Hillstar Development Kit User’s Guide
DS40001721A-page 14  2013 Microchip Technology Inc.
The Hillstar Development Kit provides an artificial test hand, further called hand brick,
helping to stimulate the human hand operating the GestIC application. The hand brick
has to be used during the design-in process to parametrize and evaluate customer’s
applications. The hand brick’s surface is conductive and connected to GND via cable
in order to reproduce the grounding conditions of the human body.
1.3 HILLSTAR DEVELOPMENT KIT PACKAGE CONTENT
The Hillstar Development Kit package content is listed below:
• MGC3130 Module
•I
2
C to USB Bridge Module
• 4-layer reference electrode (95x60 mm sensitive area)
• ‘Hand brick’ set (self-assembly, four foam blocks, one copper foil)
• USB Cable for PC connection
FIGURE 1-1: HILLSTAR DEVELOPMENT KIT
The ‘hand brick’ set is used during the design-in process for sensor calibration and
performance evaluation purposes. For usage and assembly information, refer to
Appendix C. “Parameterization Support”.