New Cypress TrueTouch™ Controllers Provide Industry-Leading 1-mm Resistive Stylus Replacement Support For Capacitive Touchs...
January 06 2011 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ:CY) today announced two new
families of its leading TrueTouch™ touchscreen controllers that are
targeted at stylus-enabled capacitive touchscreen devices. The
CY8CTMA340-XXX-03 and CY8CTMA340-XXX-11 families deliver the
industry’s only solution for thin (as small as 1 mm) stylus use on
capacitive touchscreens.
The traditional benefit of resistive touchscreens until now has
been superior stylus support. Many Asian languages require enhanced
character recognition for reliable text input, and therefore
resistive technology continues to be used despite its poor
durability and display quality. Cypress’s new TrueTouch controllers
deliver a true “Resistive Stylus Replacement” (RSR) solution that
matches the size and performance of resistive stylus
implementations while providing the additional benefits of the
capacitive touch solution. No other touch suppliers are currently
able to provide this functionality, which enables lower cost
feature phones as well as smart phones in Asia to shift to superior
capacitive touchscreens from resistive technology.
“Cypress is unique in our ability to dynamically switch between
self-capacitive and mutual-capacitive sensing methods,” said Dhwani
Vyas, vice president of the User Interface Business Unit at
Cypress. “This advantage allows us to be the only touchscreen
controller supplier that can deliver Resistive Stylus Replacement,
and positions us to introduce new, unique features going forward
that our customers can use to differentiate their end products,
especially for the Asian market. The touchscreen revolution is just
getting started, and Cypress technology such as RSR will help to
drive it forward.”
The new families provides all the traditional benefits of
Cypress’s TrueTouch technology, including very high signal-to-noise
ratio of more than 80:1 RMS, low power consumption (less that 1.3
mA low-power state current), best-in-class water rejection and
wet-finger tracking, and more. In addition, they provide highly
accurate stylus tracking accuracy better than 0.7 mm, along with
120Hz refresh rates for full handwriting recognition.
Availability
The CY8CTMA340-XXX-03 (two-finger support) and CY8CTMA340-XXX-11
(four-finger support) device families are both available today from
Cypress. Qualified customers can contact Cypress for more
information and to obtain samples.
About TrueTouch
The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly
develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey
modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film)
and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative
mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying
thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary
noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that
enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments.
The next-generation high performance TMA300 multi-touch
all-point family provides best-in-class scan times for true
multifinger touch and superior signal-to-noise ratio for the most
demanding touchscreen applications. Additional information about
the TrueTouch solution is available at
www.cypress.com/go/TrueTouch.
About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable
solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and
exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship
PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as
PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting
applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for
touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers,
including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances
connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is
also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing
devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile
handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial
and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market
under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at
www.cypress.com.
Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West
Bridge are registered trademarks and TrueTouch is a trademark of
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of
their owners.
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