Cypress Introduces New TrueTouch® Solution That Provides High-Performance Touchscreens for Lower-Cost Phones
February 27 2012 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ:CY) today introduced the
TMA140 TrueTouch® controllers for lower-cost mobile phones. The new
family offers high-performance touchscreen control, including
multi-finger support and best-in-class Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)
for screens of up to five inches. The new controllers also support
Cypress’s patent-pending Charger Armor™ feature, which uses
adaptive frequency hopping and other techniques to prevent false
touches due to excessive noise from a charger.
The new TMA140 family delivers high performance multi-touch
capabilities on a feature phone budget. The low power family offers
better than 0.5-mm accuracy, delivers gesture capability, works
flawlessly with Android and is now in mass production.
TMA140 was designed to work with SLIM®, Cypress’s Single Layer
Independent Multi-touch sensor. SLIM is a true single-substrate,
single layer ITO touchscreen sensor. Unlike competitive solutions,
it requires no additional insulation layers or bridges. This
reduces the cost of traditional multi-touch sensors by roughly 40%,
and also greatly reduces the thickness of the sensor module. TMA140
and SLIM create the world’s lowest cost multi-touch solution in the
market, making multi-touch affordable for feature phones.
“By delivering a high-performance solution for the lower-cost
phone market, Cypress is offering our customers a chance to shine
versus their competition in very high volume markets,” said John
Carey, Director of TrueTouch Marketing at Cypress. “We also have
announced the SLIM sensor that enables true multi-touch into
lower-cost phones via a single-layer sensor. TrueTouch now offers
the industry’s best solution for the hottest new smartphones (our
Gen4™ controllers) as well as lower cost features phones, and
everything in between.”
Availability
The TMA140 sensor family is available today from Cypress.
Customers can select from either 36-pin or 48-pin QFN packages.
About TrueTouch
Cypress’s TrueTouch technology provides the industry’s best
noise immunity, highest signal to noise ratio (SNR), fastest
refresh rates, lowest power consumption, and world’s best accuracy
and linearity. 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. Additional TrueTouch information is available
at touch.cypress.com.
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, TrueTouch,
and West Bridge are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor
Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.
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