43.2 Features

  • Low-power, high-sensitivity, environmentally robust capacitive touch buttons, sliders, wheels and proximity sensing
    • Down to 8μA with 200ms scan rate
  • Supports wake-up on touch from standby sleep mode
  • Supports mutual capacitance and self-capacitance sensing
    • 6/10/16 buttons in self-capacitance mode, for 32-/48-/64- pins respectively
    • 6/10/16 buttons in self-capacitance mode, for 32-/48-/64- pins respectively
    • 2/6 buttons in self-capacitance mode, for 32-/48- pins respectively
    • 60/120/256 buttons in mutual-capacitance mode, for 32-/48-/64- pins respectively
    • 60/120/256 buttons in mutual-capacitance mode, for 32-/48-/64- pins respectively
    • 12/48 buttons in mutual-capacitance mode, for 32-/48- pins respectively
    • 144 buttons in mutual-capacitance mode
    • 24 buttons in self-capacitance mode
    • Mix-and-match mutual-and self-capacitance sensors
  • One pin per electrode – no external components
  • Load compensating charge sensing
    • Parasitic capacitance compensation and adjustable gain for superior sensitivity
  • Zero drift over the temperature and VDD range
    • Auto calibration and re-calibration of sensors
  • Single-shot and free-running charge measurement
  • Hardware noise filtering and noise signal de-synchronization for high conducted immunity
  • Driven shield for better noise immunity and moisture tolerance
  • Selectable channel change delay allows choosing the settling time on a new channel, as required
  • Acquisition-start triggered by command or through auto-triggering feature
  • Low CPU utilization through interrupt on acquisition-complete
    • 5% CPU utilization scanning 10 channels at 50ms scan rate
  • Using ADC peripheral for signal conversion and acquisition
  • Supported by the Atmel® QTouch® Composer development tools., which comprises QTouch Library project builder and QTouch analyzer See also Atmel|Start and Atmel Studio documentation.