This evaluation kit provides an easy platform for evaluating and developing a variety of capacitive touch sense applications using the CAP11xx family. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) allows you to analyze data and configure the capacitive touch controller as well as the LED drivers. A second connector allows you to connect your own board with a CAP1xxx controller and communicate with the GUI.

• Learn How to Connect to an MCU Host
• Download the CAP Parameterization GUI
• Learn How to Tune Touch Performance

This evaluation kit provides an easy platform for evaluating and developing a variety of capacitive touch sense applications using the CAP12xx family. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) allows you to analyze data and configure the capacitive touch controller as well as the LED drivers. A second connector allows you to connect your own board with a CAP1xxx controller and communicate with the GUI.

• Learn How to Connect to an MCU Host
• Download the CAP Parameterization GUI
• Learn How to Tune Touch Performance

This evaluation kit provides an easy-to-use platform for evaluating the MTCH108 capacitive touch controller. It features different buttons sizes as well as a proximity sensor.

• See How to Replace Mechanical Buttons

This evaluation kit provides an easy way to evaluate and develop a variety of capacitive touch sense applications using the AT42QT1010 turnkey touch device. The kit is powered via a micro USB cable and has a jumper to select device operation mode: normal, sync mode or low-power mode.

This keypad extension kit demonstrates an ultra-low-power keypad design using the Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC). It utilizes the PTC’s low-power capabilities to enable the market’s lowest-power wake-up on touch.

• Browse QT3 Examples in Atmel START

This extension kit enables the evaluation of mutual capacitance touch using the Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC). The kit demonstrates how easy it is to design an attractive capacitive touch interface using the PTC module. The kit includes one board with a curved mutual capacitance slider and two mutual capacitance buttons. In addition, the board has 16 LEDs arranged as two 7-segment digits.

This extension board is used to evaluate the water and noise robustness of self-capacitance touch. The kit demonstrates water-tolerant touch using driven shield or Driven Shield+ technology, depending on the microcontroller used on the motherboard. The kit includes one board with a self-capacitance slider and two self-capacitance buttons. It also has eight LEDs that indicate button state and slider position.

• Design Touch With the QT7 in MPLAB Code Configurator
• Design Touch With the QT7 in MPLAB Harmony v3
• Design Touch With the QT7 in Atmel START
• Browse QT7 Examples in Atmel START

This extension board, designed for use with Xplained Pro or Curiosity Nano development boards, enables the evaluation of the Touch library for mutual capacitive sensing. It features four touch buttons and a four-segment slider to demonstrate water tolerance, speed and noise immunity. It also supports boosted capacitive touch sensing, which enables you to double the signal-to-noise ratio or reduce your scan time by a factor of four.

• Browse Qt10 Examples in Atmel START

This hardware extension platform can be used to connect Xplained Pro touch extension boards to a Curiosity Nano board for the easy addition of capacitive touch sensing capabilities to your prototype.

• See the Step-by-Step Guide for Buttons
• See the Step-by-Stp Guide for Touchpads

This kit demonstrates the best-in-class conducted immunity and moisture tolerance achievable with the Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC). It uses Driven Shield+ technology to implement a solution that passes conducted immunity testing per IEC 61000-4-6 specifications while simultaneously being immune to false touches due to water on the touch surface.

• See Water-Tolerant Touch in Action

This evaluation kit is a platform to evaluate and develop capacitive touch applications using mTouch technology. The kit demonstrates proximity sensing as well as touch on different button sizes using a driven shield for better noise performance while simultaneously being immune to false touches due to water on the touch surface.

• See the Step-by-Step Guide for MPLAB Code Configurator

This development kit enables easy evaluation of a water-tolerant design that uses the 2D Touch Surface Library. The kit demonstrates water tolerance and noise immunity on a touchpad and has two touch buttons, all of which are controlled by the same AVR^® microcontroller. It features dual-finger gesture recognition on chip, including swipes, tap events, dual finger swipes, rotations and even pinch/zoom gestures.

• Watch the Code Configuration Tutorial Video
• See the Step-by-Step Guide for Code Configuration

This development kit enables easy evaluation of a water-tolerant design that uses the 2D Touch Surface Library. The kit demonstrates water tolerance and noise immunity on a touchpad and has two touch buttons, all of which are controlled by the same PIC microcontroller. It features dual-finger gesture recognition on chip, including swipes, tap events, dual finger swipes, rotations and even pinch/zoom gestures.

• Watch the Robust Touch Video

This extension kit enables easy evaluation of the 2D Touch Surface Library by demonstrating water tolerance and noise immunity on a touchpad. When combined with a supported 8- or 32-bit MCU, the 2D Touch Library enables on-chip dual-finger gesture recognition, including swipes, tap events, dual finger swipes, rotations and even pinch/zoom gestures. It is compatible with the following Xplained Pro evaluation kits:

• ATtiny3217 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit
• SAML10 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit
• SAM D21 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit
• SAM DA1 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit
• SAM C21 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit
  

For information about using this kit with PIC MCUs, please contact your local Microchip sales office.

• Watch the Step-by-Step Video - Part 1
• Watch the Step-by-Step Video - Part 2
• Watch the Step-by-Step Video - Part 3
• See Machine Learning-Based Complex Gesture Recognition

This development kit enables easy evaluation of a water-tolerant design that uses the 2D Touch Surface Library. The kit demonstrates water tolerance and noise immunity on a touchpad and has two touch buttons, all of which are controlled by the same AVR^® microcontroller. It features dual-finger gesture recognition on chip, including swipes, tap events, dual finger swipes, rotations and even pinch/zoom gestures.

• Watch the Code Configuration Tutorial Video
• See the Step-by-Step Guide for Code Configuration

This development kit enables easy evaluation of a water-tolerant design that uses the 2D Touch Surface Library. The kit demonstrates water tolerance and noise immunity on a touchpad and has two touch buttons, all of which are controlled by the same PIC microcontroller. It features dual-finger gesture recognition on chip, including swipes, tap events, dual finger swipes, rotations and even pinch/zoom gestures.

• Watch the Robust Touch Video

The MPLAB development ecosystem can be used to simplify touch configuration of the PIC and SAM MCUs in your design. It includes these tools:

• MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment
• MPLAB Code Configurator (MCC)
• MPLAB Harmony v3
• MPU Touch Configurator
• Learn How to Install MPLAB Code Configurator
• Learn About MPLAB Code Configurator for Touch
• Learn How to Install MPLAB Harmony v3
• Learn About MPLAB Harmony v3 for Touch

These tools can be used to configure touch features in AVR and SAM MCUs:

• Microchip Studio
• Atmel START
• Go to Atmel START
• Learn About Atmel START for Touch

This easy-to-use tuning solution for use with all MCUs with touch enables you to visualize your touch data to maximize the performance and reliability of your touch design. Use this free program with the code you create with MCC, MPLAB Harmony or Atmel START to process and visualize real-time touch data for your project.

• Learn How To Tune Touch in MPLAB Harmony v3
• Learn How To Tune Touch in Atmel START

Download this touch and gesture tuning GUI for the 2D Touch Surface Library, which can be used with PIC, AVR and SAM MCUs.

• See Example of 2D Touch Surface GUI

Touch Tuning GUI for all CAP1xxx devices

• Learn How to Connect to an MCU Host
• Learn How to Tune Touch Performance

Metal over Cap (MoC) tool to calculate activation forces for MoC projects