GUI development board

23 January 2013 Design Automation

Microchip’s new PIC32 GUI Development Board with Projected-Capacitive Touch (DM320015) makes it easy for designers to add the combination of multi-touch projected-capacitive interfaces and high-quality, 16-bit colour graphics to WQVGA displays in any application.

The board’s 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller can directly drive LCDs, eliminating the cost and complexity of an external graphics controller. The onboard MTCH6301 is a turnkey projected-capacitive touch controller that simplifies the integration of popular multi-touch and gestures.

In combination with Microchip’s free graphics and multi-touch software, this board enables rich, modern user interfaces for cost-sensitive designs in a broad range of markets, such as consumer, industrial and medical.

The development board enables bezel mounting and connections between LCD displays and most of the PIC32’s on-chip peripherals. The board also provides ready-to-use PCB pads for common serial and analog connections. Additionally, the PIC32 has processing power to spare for additional tasks, such as communication, control and audio.

The MTCH6301 controller’s sophisticated combination of self and mutual capacitive scanning for XY touchscreens and touchpads enables a host of features, including single and dual-touch drawing, the reporting of 11 single-finger gestures and the detection of up to 10 touches. Additionally, the IC supports sensor designs with up to 13 x 18 channels and cover lenses up to 5 mm.

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