When you look at switching solutions for electronic wearables, your options are limited. With a clever application of conductive fabric and thread, you can cobble together a simple switch, but the ...

Molex Incorporated has partnered with a multinational manufacturer of major appliances to develop capacitive touchpad panels for two high-end Class-A energy saving clothes washers. Molex Incorporated ...

San Jose, Ca. – Atmel Corporation has just released to volume production its new maXTouch family of capacitive touchscreen controllers, capable of supporting an unlimited number of unique simultaneous ...

Molex has partnered with a multinational appliance manufacturer to develop capacitive touchpad panels for high end energy saving washing machines. The switches and panels use capacitive field sensing ...

Silicon Laboratories has launched what it says is the industry's lowest power capacitive touch sense microcontrollers. The F99x family features devices with integrated touch sense technology for use ...

Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller. This led [John Phillips] to ask why not embed such ...

Texas Instruments (TI) announced MSP430 FRAM microcontrollers (MCUs) with CapTIvate technology, the world's lowest-power capacitive touch MCUs. The new MSP430FR2633 MCU with CapTIvate technology ...

Atmel has announced the ATA6285 and ATA6286 microcontroller-transmitter ICs with sensor interface for tire pressure monitoring (TPMS) sensor gauge systems. Atmel has announced availability of ATA6285 ...

Capacitive sensing is a contactless-sensing technique with numerous applications, ranging from proximity sensing (Fig. 1), gesture recognition, automotive rain sensors, and remote liquid-level sensing ...

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a global leader in the development and fabrication of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced today the availability of the new highly-integrated and low-power ...

Liquid-level sensing is used in consumer electronics appliances like washing machines to detect the detergent level. The sensor technolo­gy has progressed to such an extent that refrigerators can now ...