QuickSense™ Capacitive Touch MCUs

 

Capacitive Touchscreen Overview

Silicon Labs' QuickSense™ multi-touch touchscreen controller family provides a robust, flexible, and high-value solution that delivers on the demands of customers:

  • The industry’s first capacitive touchscreen solution with an open system architecture
  • Advanced mixed-signal architecture with high sensitivity and low power
  • Interference countermeasures for robust operation in any environment
  • Rapid evaluation with QuickSense Studio, Silicon Labs common development environment for human interface products

 

Capacitive Touchscreen Controller Products

Part Number​ Sensing Channels*​ Sensing Nodes*​ Supported Screen Size*​ Communications​ Package​
C8051F76x​ 27x16​ 432​ <7.0"​
SPI, UART,
SMBus/I2C, ​
48QFN
32QFN
24QFN​
 * Denotes maximum value in family

 


Capacitive Sensing Overview

Silicon Labs' QuickSense™ capacitive touch sense MCUs enable implementation of sophisticated and responsive touch interfaces and are fully supported by the QuickSense Studio development environment to simplify development easy.

 


Capacitive Touch Sense MCU Products

 MCU Family    

Switches

MIPS* 

Flash/
EPROM* 

RAM* 

Dig I/O* 

CDC**

Dev Kit 

C8051F7xx 

32

25

16 kB

512

54

CT

C8051F700DK

C8051F8xx 

16 25 16 kB 512 17 CT

C8051F800DK

C8051F99x

14 25 8 kB 512 17 CT C8051F996DK

* Denotes maximum value in family
** CT denotes Charge-Timing CDC

The C8051F700 family enables:

  • Capacitive buttons
  • Sliders
  • Wheels
  • Proximity sensing
  • Liquid level sensing
  • Projected capacitance touch screens

The C8051F800 and C8051F99x families enable:

  • Capacitive buttons
  • Sliders
  • Wheels
  • Capacitive Proximity sensing
  • Liquid level sensing

  

 

Design Resources

Training Materials

C8051F70x Capacitive Touch Sense Overview—Learn how to implement capacitive sensing technology using the C8051F70x/1x family.

Keyboard Evaluation Kit

The Keyboard Evaluation Kit introduces Silicon Labs' new SAR CDC capacitive sensing technology demonstrated with buttons, wheel and slider. The evaluation platform uses the C8051F70x/71x high-pin count MCU device family.

KEYBOARD-EK