In part 1 of this article, we discussed various differentiated industrial system applications using capacitive touch technology. These included capacitive liquid level sensing, tactile feedback and indicators, smart keyless lock door entry, and design considerations for added security. We have also covered how to lower the cost of these designs. In part 2, we will…
Going Beyond User Interface Panels with Capacitive Touch: How to Differentiate Industrial Systems Without Increasing Cost – Part 1
The industrial market started adopting capacitive touch-sensing technology to leverage sleeker design and greater reliability against wear and tear compared to conventional mechanical buttons. In addition, capacitive touch technology offers many features beyond mechanical button replacement (MBR), including liquid level sensing, keyless door access control, object detection, tactile feedback, gesture support in the user interface,…
Designing with Smart Analog Building Blocks
The circuit integration in system on chip (SOCs) drives today’s embedded system design where the complex and flexible (programmable and configurable) analog, digital, and processing engines are expected to be in a single chip. This trend has led to the fabrication of complex and advanced analog features in SoCs and MCUs. These flexible analog fabrics…