New Ultra-Low-Power Touch-sensor Chips

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LG KU580 with touch. screen. LG. By: Elena Balan, Communications News Editor. New Ultra-Low-Power Touch-sensor Chips. More evolved touch-sensitive phones …

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27 June 2007
LG KU580 with touch
screen
LG
By: Elena Balan, Communications News Editor
New Ultra-Low-Power Touch-sensor Chips
More evolved touch-sensitive phones are on their way
Touch-sensitive devices have been the new trend to go lately when it comes to mobile
technology. STMicroelectronics now brings several new ultra-low-power touch-sensor chips
which can be successfully integrated in any mobile devices, such as cellulars, PDAs,
notebook PCs and media players.
This family of chips includes a fully-designed architecture that needs no on-chip MCU,
memory or firmware. They come in 8-channel and 12-channel devices and manage to line
from the device to the application’s touch pads with no need for external resistor-capacitator
networks.
The sensors come in quite small sizes, as the 8-input device uses a 2.6 x 1.8 mm package,
which proves to be highly compact and easy to use. This turns out to be more than 80
percent smaller when compared to other existing solutions. Moreover, the price is also
worthy of attention, as it manages to bring this more evolved technology at competitive
costs.
The ultra-low-power touch-sensor chips will be available as…