mTouch™ Sensing Solutions Design Center

Touch sensing has become an alternative to traditional pushbutton switch user interfaces, because it requires no mechanical movement, and it enables a completely sealed and modern-looking design. Expanding beyond the consumer market, touch sensing is beginning to take hold in medical, industrial and automotive applications for reasons such as aesthetics, maintenance, cost and cleanliness.

mTouch™ Sensing Solution and Methodology

Microchip’s mTouch™ Sensing Solution provides a free and easy method for designers to add touch sensing to applications utilizing PIC® microcontrollers without the cost of fee-based licensing and royalty agreements. Being a source-code solution further helps engineers quickly integrate touch sensing functionality with their existing application code in a single, standard microcontroller, thus reducing the total system cost associated with current solutions.

Maximum Design Flexibility

Microchip offers flexibility to choose your level of involvement in mTouch™ Solution application-specific firmware development:

Technologies

In addition to the Capacitive Sensing solutions, Microchip also offers an Inductive Sensing solution. It gives designers more flexibility to choose the right touch technology for their application.

How to decide between Capacitive and Inductive Touch based on your application requirements?