Microchip Technology AC164127-3 Data Sheet

Microchip Human Interface Solutions

Engineering teams that are tasked with creating human 

interfaces for new or legacy designs need solutions 

that create a high-impact user interface incorporating 

the latest in touch sensing and graphical display 

technologies. These solutions must be easy to integrate 

and lower total system cost.
Touch sensing interfaces such as keys/sliders and touch 

screens are fast becoming an alternative to traditional 

push button switch user interfaces owing to their many 

benefits—elegant and stylish designs, lower manufacturing 

costs achieved by lowering costs of molds, tooling and 

assembly, and increased reliability via fewer moving 

components. Application designers migrating to touch 

sensing interfaces require robust, low-cost and power-

efficient solutions that are easy to integrate.
Digital displays improve the user interface of just about 

any application. Segmented LCDs have historically been 

a popular choice of display technology and continue to 

grow in a variety of medical and industrial applications. 

In recent years there has been a significant rise in the 

use of graphical displays such as TFT, OLED and CSTN 

in consumer, appliance and automotive applications. 

Users prefer intuitive menus, vivid graphics, touch panel 

interaction and in some case the ability to interact 

remotely with a system. Designers migrating toward 

graphical displays face several challenges such as cost of 

components associated with driving the display, complexity 

of software needed for updating graphics, battery life and 

remote connectivity.
If you are looking to add newer and feature-rich interfaces 

to your products in an aesthetically pleasing manner, 

Microchip has a broad portfolio of solutions that include 

touch sensing and display technologies. Microchip delivers 

these latest advancements as complete hardware and 

software solutions to get your design to market faster at a 

lower total system cost.

   

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Longer battery life with eXtreme Low Power MCUs 

   

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Sensing through metal, plastic or glass 

   

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High noise immunity and low emissions

   

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Lower system cost with broad MCU portfolio

   

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Free software library enables easy integration and 

touch-sensing GUI speeds up development

   

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Get started quickly with low cost development kits

   

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Turnkey analog resistive controllers for lowest 

system cost

   

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Highly fl exible projected capacitive solution with 

low cost MCU implementation

   

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Fully processed and reliable touch coordinates

   

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Multi-touch and gesture capable

   

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Low power solutions with wide operating voltage

   

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Royalty-free source code solutions with complete 

starter kits

   

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Direct drive of inexpensive displays

   

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Up to 480 segments

   

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Integrated analog for sensor applications like 

temperature sensing in thermostats

   

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Integrated touch sensing function

   

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Up to WVGA (800x480) resolution

   

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Up to 24 bit per pixel

   

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Free Graphics Library and Graphics Display 

Designer GUI

   

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PIC24 “DA” family features integrated graphics 

acceleration and display controller

   

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High performance 32-bit MCUs with integrated 

Ethernet and CAN for remote interfaces

   

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Integrated USB OTG and mTouch sensing

   

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Generation of tones, alarms and musical notes

   

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Recording and playback of audio information

   

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Graphic equalizer