QuickSense™ Family of Human Interface Solutions

The Silicon Labs QuickSense™ family of products offers a unique grouping of the industry’s fastest capacitive and optical sensing solutions to enable sophisticated user interfaces in electronics products, all supported with the innovative and easy to use QuickSense Studio development platform.

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User Interface Solutions

The QuickSense portfolio features touch and touchless user interface solutions, including the innovative touchless slider which can detect complex gestures. Developers will find reliable and responsive UI products including:

  • Capacitive buttons
  • Capacitive sliders and wheels
  • Capacitive proximity sensing
  • Infrared proximity sensing
  • Ambient light sensing

Device Families

The QuickSense family includes the following devices:

QuickSense Development Tools

Silicon Labs offers complete tools to help designers throughout the entire project cycle. Both the infrared and capacitive sensing solutions include hardware and software platforms to easily set up and configure, compile and debug a project. 

Human Interface Applications

Optimized for power efficiency, the QuickSense Si1102 proximity sensor ICs and Si1120 proximity and ambient light sensor ICs enable touchless human interface sensing with superior detection range. These sensors are ideal for applications that can benefit from system power savings, tamper detection/proofing, motion sensing and gesture interpretation.

Example human interface applications - personal navigation device, refrigerator, VoIP phone, portable DVD player

When paired with the C8051F700 and C8051F800 touch sense microcontrollers (MCUs), the QuickSense family of products enables smart motion sensing, giving designers a complete array of human interface technologies to improve the end-user experience.

Application Notes