San Jose, Calif. — Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has introduced the CapSense Express capacitive touch sensing solution for fast and easy button and slider replacement. The Programmable System-on-Chip ...

Capacitive touch sensors are fast becoming an integral part of many electronic goods these days. Made popular by products like the Apple iPod adopting it, capacitive sensors have now become the ...

Creating capacitive touch-sensitive buttons is easy these days; many microcontrollers have cap-sense hardware built-in. This will work for simple on/off control, but what if you want a linear, ...

Most modern laptops have some sort of volume control buttons. Usually these are a set of Fn keys on the keyboard, but convertible laptops with screens that can flip around for use in tablet mode often ...

Expanding the PureTouch family of low power controllers are the LDS6003, LDS6005, LDS6023, LDS6025, and LDS6028, which target capacitive-touch applications in both mobile and non-mobile designs. The ...

Electromechanical switches are simple, cheap, and widely available (Fig. 1). However, they’re also plagued with a number of disadvantages, including wear with repeated use, and the potential for ...