Touch sense demonstration board
19 March 2008
Design Automation
Microchip has developed the PICDEM Touch Sense 1 Demo Board (part number DM164125) for capacitive touch-sensing applications. The easy-to-use board comes with a PICkit Serial Analyser and the royalty-free mTouch Sensing Solution Software Development Kit (SDK). Together, the board and supporting materials provide a complete platform for implementing capacitive touch-sensing interfaces using the highly integrated, cost-effective 8-bit Flash PIC microcontrollers.  
Many applications in the consumer, appliance and medical markets now employ capacitive touch-sensing technology for reasons such as aesthetics, maintenance, cost and cleanliness. The demo board is equipped with capacitive touch keys and sliders to enable designers to evaluate the technology in their applications. Libraries, source code and other support materials that come with the board further shorten development time and reduce design costs.
	
 
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