Preface
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Introduction
The Microchip T10 Xplained Pro is an extension board that evaluates mutual capacitive touch sensing. It supports Boosted Touch - a solution developed by Microchip Technology to double the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in mutual designs or to reduce the acquisition time by a factor of 4.
The Xplained Pro Connector ensures that the T10 can be used with many MCU XPRO boards as well as Curiosity Nano MCU Boards. Microchip MCUs feature dedicated Touch core independent peripheral (CIP) to offload the core while touch sensing. The board shows how easy it is to design capacitive touch solution for the dedicated CIPs without the need of external components. The kit includes one board with a mutual capacitance slider, and four mutual capacitance buttons. It also has 12 LEDs to indicate the button status and the slider position.