Touch Development Tools

This evaluation kit provides an easy platform for evaluating and developing a variety of capacitive touch sense applications using the CAP11xx family. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) allows you to analyze data and configure the capacitive touch controller as well as the LED drivers. A second connector allows you to connect your own board with a CAP1xxx controller and communicate with the GUI.

• Learn How to Connect to an MCU Host
• Download the CAP Parameterization GUI
• Learn How to Tune Touch Performance

This evaluation kit provides an easy platform for evaluating and developing a variety of capacitive touch sense applications using the CAP12xx family. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) allows you to analyze data and configure the capacitive touch controller as well as the LED drivers. A second connector allows you to connect your own board with a CAP1xxx controller and communicate with the GUI.

• Learn How to Connect to an MCU Host
• Download the CAP Parameterization GUI
• Learn How to Tune Touch Performance

This evaluation kit provides an easy-to-use platform for evaluating the MTCH108 capacitive touch controller. It features different button sizes and a proximity sensor.

• See How to Replace Mechanical Buttons

This evaluation kit provides an easy way to evaluate and develop a variety of capacitive touch sense applications using the AT42QT1010 turnkey touch device. The kit is powered via a micro USB cable and has a jumper to select device operation mode: normal, sync mode or low-power mode.

This evaluation kit provides a complete out-of-the-box experience to explore the water-tolerant and robust touch capabilities of the MTCH1010 single-button touch controller. This kit, which passed the highest level (10 Vrms) testing for IEC 61000-4-6 conductive noise immunity, demonstrates how the touch sensing remains fully functional in noisy environments without any false triggers.

This keypad extension kit demonstrates an ultra-low-power keypad design using the Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC). It utilizes the PTC’s low-power capabilities to enable the market’s lowest-power wake-up on touch.

• Browse QT3 Examples in Atmel START

This extension kit enables the evaluation of mutual capacitance touch using the Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC). The kit demonstrates how easy it is to design an attractive capacitive touch interface using the PTC module. The kit includes one board with a curved mutual capacitance slider and two mutual capacitance buttons. In addition, the board has 16 LEDs arranged as two 7-segment digits.

This extension board is used to evaluate the water and noise robustness of self-capacitance touch. The kit demonstrates water-tolerant touch using driven shield or Driven Shield+ technology, depending on the microcontroller used on the motherboard. The kit includes one board with a self-capacitance slider and two self-capacitance buttons. It also has eight LEDs that indicate button state and slider position.

• Design Touch With the QT7 in MPLAB Code Configurator
• Design Touch With the QT7 in MPLAB Harmony v3
• Design Touch With the QT7 in Atmel START
• Browse QT7 Examples in Atmel START

This curiosity nano development board enables the fast prototyping of touch applications with different touch modes. It has extension headers to the Curiosity Nano Touch Adapter to interface with QT touch extension boards.

Use the Curiosity Nano Touch Adapter to connect a Curiosity Nano MCU development board with an Xplained Pro touch extension board.

• See the Step-by-Step Guide for Buttons
  
• See the Step-by-Stp Guide for Touchpads
  

Optimized for mutual capacitive sensing, the T10 Xplained Pro extension board demonstrates water-tolerant touch and robust immunity to noise. It features four buttons and a four-segment slider and supports our Boost Mode capacitive touch technology, which can double the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) or reduce the touch scan time.

• Browse T10 Examples in Atmel START
  

This kit demonstrates the best-in-class conducted immunity and moisture tolerance achievable with the Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC). It uses Driven Shield+ technology to implement a solution that passes conducted immunity testing per IEC 61000-4-6 specifications while simultaneously being immune to false touches due to water on the touch surface.

• See Water-Tolerant Touch in Action
  

This evaluation kit is a platform to evaluate and develop capacitive touch applications using mTouch technology. The kit demonstrates proximity sensing as well as touch on different button sizes using a driven shield for better noise performance while simultaneously being immune to false touches due to water on the touch surface.

• See the Step-by-Step Guide for MPLAB Code Configurator
  

This development kit enables easy evaluation of a water-tolerant design that uses the 2D Touch Surface Library. The kit demonstrates water tolerance and noise immunity on a touchpad and has two touch buttons, all of which are controlled by the same AVR® microcontroller. It features dual-finger gesture recognition on chip, including swipes, tap events, dual finger swipes, rotations and even pinch/zoom gestures.

• Watch the Code Configuration Tutorial Video
  
• See the Step-by-Step Guide for Code Configuration
  

This development kit enables easy evaluation of a water-tolerant design that uses the 2D Touch Surface Library. The kit demonstrates water tolerance and noise immunity on a touchpad and has two touch buttons, all of which are controlled by the same PIC microcontroller. It features dual-finger gesture recognition on chip, including swipes, tap events, dual finger swipes, rotations and even pinch/zoom gestures.

• Watch the Robust Touch Video
  

This extension kit enables easy evaluation of the 2D Touch Surface Library by demonstrating water tolerance and noise immunity on a touchpad. When combined with a supported 8-, 16- or 32-bit MCU, the 2D Touch Library enables on-chip dual-finger gesture recognition, including swipes, tap events, dual finger swipes, rotations and even pinch/zoom gestures. Use the Curiosity Nano Touch Adapter to connect this extension kit to a Curiosity Nano MCU development board. It is also compatible with the following Xplained Pro evaluation kits:

• ATtiny3217 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit
• SAML10 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit
• SAM D21 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit
• SAM DA1 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit
• SAM C21 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit

For information about using this kit with PIC MCUs, please contact your local Microchip sales office.

• Watch the Step-by-Step Video - Part 1
• Watch the Step-by-Step Video - Part 2
• Watch the Step-by-Step Video - Part 3
• See Machine Learning-Based Complex Gesture Recognition

This development kit enables easy evaluation of a water-tolerant design that uses the 2D Touch Surface Library. The kit demonstrates water tolerance and noise immunity on a touchpad and has two touch buttons, all of which are controlled by the same AVR® microcontroller. It features dual-finger gesture recognition on chip, including swipes, tap events, dual finger swipes, rotations and even pinch/zoom gestures.

• Watch the Code Configuration Tutorial Video
• See the Step-by-Step Guide for Code Configuration

This development kit enables easy evaluation of a water-tolerant design that uses the 2D Touch Surface Library. The kit demonstrates water tolerance and noise immunity on a touchpad and has two touch buttons, all of which are controlled by the same PIC microcontroller. It features dual-finger gesture recognition on chip, including swipes, tap events, dual finger swipes, rotations and even pinch/zoom gestures.

• Watch the Robust Touch Video

This reference design is driven by our 32-bit PIC32CM LE00 MCU with integrated enhanced Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC). This MCU enables out-of-the-box validation of water-tolerant touch utilizing our Driven Shield+ technology. It supports taps, swipes, pinch/zoom and single-finger tracking and features ultra-low power with wake-up-on-touch support. It passes IEC/EN 61000 4-6, level 3 (10V rms) certification with conducted immunity.

This kit features an Arm® Cortex®-M4 based SAM E5x 32-bit MCU and implements a single-chip touchscreen solution that doesn’t compromise on performance for cost-sensitive applications. It eliminates the need for a dedicated touch controller, which reduces the cost and complexity of a design. All firmware, including the graphics and touch libraries as well as the demo applications, are available through the MPLAB® Harmony v3 embedded software development framework.

The MPLAB development ecosystem can be used to simplify touch configuration of the PIC and SAM MCUs in your design. It includes these tools:

• MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment
• MPLAB Code Configurator (MCC)
• MPLAB Harmony v3
• MPU Touch Configurator
• Learn How to Install MPLAB Code Configurator
• Learn About MPLAB Code Configurator for Touch
• Learn How to Install MPLAB Harmony v3
• Learn About MPLAB Harmony v3 for Touch

These tools can be used to configure touch features in AVR and SAM MCUs:

• Microchip Studio
• Atmel START
• Go to Atmel START
• Learn About Atmel START for Touch

MPLAB® Data Visualizer is a free debugging tool that graphically displays run-time variables in an embedded application. Available as a plug-in for MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment (IDE) or a stand-alone debugging tool, it can receive data from various sources such as the Embedded Debugger Data Gateway Interface (DGI) and COM ports. You can also track your application's run-time behavior using a terminal or graph.

• Learn How to Tune Touch in MPLAB Harmony v3
• Learn How to Tune Touch in Atmel START

The Data Visualizer is a legacy application to process and visualize data. The Data Visualizer is capable of receiving data from various sources such as the Embedded Debugger Data Gateway Interface (DGI) and COM ports. Track your applications run-time using a terminal graph or oscilloscope, or analyze the power consumption of your application through correlation of code execution and power consumption, when used together with a supported probe or board. 

Download this touch and gesture tuning GUI for the 2D Touch Surface Library, which can be used with PIC, AVR and SAM MCUs.

• See Example of 2D Touch Surface GUI

Touch tuning GUI for all CAP1xxx devices

• Learn How to Connect to an MCU Host
• Learn How to Tune Touch Performance

Metal over Cap (MoC) tool to calculate activation forces for MoC projects

The MTB is a tuning bridge that you can use with all Microchip touch designs:

• 8-, 16- and 32-bit MCUs using our 2D Touch Library
• Turnkey touch products (MTCH, CAP, AT42QT series)

It offers bidirectional wired (USB) or wireless (Bluetooth®) communication to save time. The MTB firmware, which will be updated regularly, is provided through MPLAB® Discover.