Avago Technologies has developed an innovative new touch screen interface that greatly enhances the operation and navigation of smart phones, portable media players, and a wide range of other portable communications devices. The new touch screen technology is a mutual capacitance, multi-touch controller that is capable of tracking up to four simultaneous touch points without the problem of ghost points that are found in most other competing capacitive sensing technologies.
Avago's multi-touch, capacitive touch screen controller has been specifically designed to offer highly-accurate, responsive and fluid on-screen navigation to greatly enhance the end-user’s experience. Other key features include 500dpi resolution for jitter free smooth tracking; hover rejection and palm detection to prevent false touch responses; good adjacent touch resolution for finer screen features and sensitivity; and 13-inch per second tracking speed to provide screen navigation that is fast, responsive and suitable for gaming applications.
Designed for ease of adoption and manufacturing, Avago’s touch screen interface does not require any touch sensitivity scaling, noise tuning or capacitive balancing. It also has a robust design that allows for flexible ASIC placement on flex or printed circuit boards. To simplify the assembly process, this device has a patent pending, built-in self test for panel indium tin oxide (ITO) breakage ‘open/shorts,’ which means no application test fixture is required resulting in scalability and quick turnaround of sensor panel prototypes and efficient manufacturing. Panel integrity tests can also be run on devices in the field. Moreover, this touch screen controller offers configurable registers for customization and debugging, and pairs with both glass and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) sensor panels. In addition to these key product features, a complete development kit, which includes software and sensor panel design guides are provided to further ease the implementation of this capacitive touch panel into customer designs.
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