Touch Development Tools

Microchip® QT7 Xplained Pro kit is an extension board that enables the evaluation of self-capacitance touch.

Microchip T9 Xplained Pro kit is an extension board that enables easy evaluation of touch on metal (MoC).

Microchip T10 Xplained Pro kit is an extension board that enables easy evaluation mutual capacitive sensing and Boost Mode capacitive sensing.

Microchip QT8 Xplained Pro kit is an extension board that enables easy evaluation of the 2D Touch Surface library.

The Microchip Curiosity Nano Touch Adapter is a hardware extension platform to ease the connection between Curiosity Nano kits and Xplained Pro touch extension boards.

The Curiosity Nano Touch Adapter bridges from the Curiosity Nano MCU kits to the XPRO connected touch extension boards.

Its similar in purpose as the Curiosity Nano Base for Click boards™ (AC164162) yet focused on touch extension boards.

The dsPIC33CK64MC105 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit is a cost-effective hardware platform to evaluate the dsPIC33CK family of high-performance Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs). The board features the 100 MHz dsPIC33CK64MC105 DSC, which offers 64KB of ECC Flash, 8KB of RAM, a 12-bit/3.5 Msps ADC with 15 channels, 3 op amps, 1 analog comparator, a 12-bit DAC, 4x2 high-speed PWMs with 2 ns resolution and several Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs). The dsPIC33CK ‘MC1’ family is ideal for the design of automotive, motor control, sensor interfacing and control, high-performance, functional safety, and robust applications.

This board simplifies the evaluation of capacitive touch sensing using the dsPIC33C DSCs with core-independent touch capability or the device’s usage in automotive and industrial applications requiring CAN-FD, LIN or SENT communication. This board has on-board touch buttons, CAN/CAN FD, LIN and SENT transceivers, along with XPLAINED PRO and mikroBUS™ connectors to interface touch and other extension boards

The DM080101 Water Tolerant Touch Surface development kit enables easy evaluation of the 2D Touch Surface library running on a ATtiny1617.

The DM164149 Water Tolerant 2D Touch Surface development kit - PIC MCU Edition enables easy evaluation of the 2D Touch Surface library.

The Microchip Touch Bridge (MTB)  is a tuning bridge for Microchip touch designs with the convenience of bidirectional communication wired (USB) or wireless (Bluetooth). The Microchip Touch Bridge firmware is provided through MPLAB Discover and continously upgraded in features.

The Build In Self-Test (BIST) Xplained Pro extension kit (BIST-XPRO) allows to introduces pin failures for Built in self sets and/or Power up self tests (POST). Its a daughter board compatible with the
Xplained Pro and Curiosity platforms.

The BIST-XPRO adds to ability to introduce pin failures in early stage of development. Pin failures are in focus in all types of functional safety relevant projects such as:

• ISO26262 (ASIL) for Automotive
• IEC60730 for Appliances
• IEC 61508 (SIL) for Industrial
• IEC 62304 for Medical

The board connects between compatible XPRO MCU boards or to Curiosity Nano MCU boards via the Curiosity Nano Touch Adapter and extension sensor boards, such as the QT7-XPRO. The BIST-XPRO enables quick testing of the BIST and Power-up Self-Test (POST) routines for their effectiveness to test common pin failures, such as:

• Pin short to VDD
• Pin short to VSS / GND
• Pin short to another pin
• Pin open (e.g. broken sensor feeding line)

Microchip QT8 Xplained Pro kit is an extension board that enables easy evaluation of the 2D Touch Surface library.

The DM080101 Water Tolerant Touch Surface development kit enables easy evaluation of the 2D Touch Surface library running on a ATtiny1617.

The DM164149 Water Tolerant 2D Touch Surface development kit - PIC MCU Edition enables easy evaluation of the 2D Touch Surface library.

The product is a development platform that will use an Arm® Cortex®-M4 SAM E51 MCU driving both the graphics and touch processing functions to a display module that has a touch sensor overlay, but no dedicated touch controller.

This design showcases a low-cost, integrated touch and graphics solution that will differentiate it from the currently available solutions in the market:

· This design eliminates the need of a dedicated touch controller and the need for tuning the controller. This reduces cost and complexity that puts it ahead of the vast of offering of ARM M4 graphics and touch solutions in the market

· All firmware, including the graphics and touch library and demo applications, will be publicly available thru the integrated MPLAB® Harmony v3 Framework.

The Microchip Touch Bridge (MTB)  is a tuning bridge for Microchip touch designs with the convenience of bidirectional communication wired (USB) or wireless (Bluetooth). The Microchip Touch Bridge firmware is provided through MPLAB Discover and continously upgraded in features.

MPLAB Tools for VS Code are a set of extensions that integrate the MPLAB development ecosystem with VS Code, offering a seamless and efficient environment for developing designs based on Microchip devices.

MPLAB X IDE is a highly configurable software platform that provides powerful, free tools for developing, debugging and qualifying embedded designs that use microcontrollers and digital signal controllers.

MPLAB Code Configurator supports 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit PIC® microcontrollers. MCC is incorporated into both the downloadable MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and the cloud-based MPLAB Xpress IDE.