9.4.6.15.6 5-wire Position Measurement Method

In an application only monitoring clicks, 100 points per second is typically needed. For handwriting or motion detection, the number of measurements to consider is approximately 200 points per second. This must take into account that multiple measurements are included (over sampling, filtering) to compute the correct point.

The 5-wire touchscreen panel works by applying a voltage at the corners of the resistive layer and measuring the vertical or horizontal resistive network with the sense input. The ADC converts the voltage measured at the point the panel is touched.

A measurement of the Y position of the pointing device is made by:

• Connecting Upper left (UL) and upper right (UR) corners to VDDANA
• Connecting Lower left (LL) and lower right (LR) corners to ground.

The voltage measured is determined by the voltage divider developed at the point of touch (Y position) and the SENSE input is converted by ADC.

A measurement of the X position of the pointing device is made by:

• Connecting the upper left (UL) and lower left (LL) corners to ground
• Connecting the upper right and lower right corners to VDDANA.

The voltage measured is determined by the voltage divider developed at the point of touch (X position) and the SENSE input is converted by ADC.