Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY), the market leader in
touch-sensing, today announced a new CapSense® Express™
capacitive touch-sensing controller optimized to replace mechanical
buttons in front panels for industrial and consumer applications,
portable medical devices, gaming devices and home automation systems.
The new low-power CY8CMBR2110
device supports up to 10 buttons and drives up to 10 LEDs with fully
configurable LED effects.
Cypress also introduced the EZ-Click™
customizer tool, GUI-based software that combines device
configuration, visual feedback, and production line testing for
streamlined register configuration of the CY8CMBR2110 controllers,
thereby accelerating time-to-market. Designers can use the tool to
implement customized LED effects and buzzer output for audio feedback.
Controllers in the Mechanical Button Replacement (MBR) family leverage
Cypress’s SmartSense™ auto-tuning algorithm, which completely eliminates
the requirement for manual system tuning and is the only solution that
maintains optimal button performance during run-time. More information
is available at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.
“The market for front panel user interfaces in industrial, medical and
consumer applications is huge and growing,” said Dirk Franklin, business
unit director for Cypress’s CapSense solutions. “Designing a capacitive
touch sensing user interface is not easy, but with our robust CapSense
Express MBR family, backed by the support of our revolutionary new
EZ-Click customizer tool and SmartSense auto-tuning technology, Cypress
has delivered ease of design for sleek, reliable capacitive touch
control panels. What we like to say about our new, button-replacement
family is that ‘it just works!’”
The CapSense Express MBR family includes the CY8CMBR2016 matrix keypad
solution, the CY8CMBR2010 ten-button controllers and the CY8CMBR2044
four-button hardware configurable controllers. Devices in the family
offer the industry’s lowest power consumption with supply current in run
mode of 15 uA per button and a 100 nA Deep-Sleep mode. The devices
operate over a 1.71V to 5.5V range, making them ideal for a wide range
of regulated and unregulated battery applications, and enabling them to
operate from a single coin cell battery. The family delivers robust
sensing in noisy environments using Cypress’s patented CapSense Sigma
Delta (CSD) sensing method, ensuring superior immunity to conducted and
radiated noise. These devices also feature an integrated voltage
regulator to address power supply noise, as well as filters for any
spurious noise.
The MBR family features SmartSense auto-tuning, which dynamically
optimizes the capacitive baseline and detection threshold for each
button. The algorithm adjusts for the optimal capacitance sensing range
at power-up and during runtime as environmental conditions change,
including noise, temperature, and humidity. Eliminating the need to tune
is a significant advantage for large and small manufacturers alike, as
it saves engineering time and yield loss that can occur with even slight
variations in manufacturing tolerances. This savings is greatly
multiplied for customers with a global factory footprint and
multi-sourced supply chain. SmartSense auto-tuning can eliminate the
need for additional test steps required by competing solutions to
address manufacturing variations in PCBs and overlays.
Cypress offers the CY3280-MBR2 CapSense Express with SmartSense
Auto-Tuning Evaluation Kit to support the CY8CMBR2110 controller. The
MBR family’s accompanying Design Toolbox is a simple, interactive
spreadsheet that provides detailed resources to ensure optimal
performance and validate CapSense systems. The toolbox delivers advanced
system debug features and offers application specific guidelines for
capacitive buttons, allowing customers to take designs directly to
production for significantly shorter time-to-market.
Availability and Photo
The CY8CMBR2110 CapSense Express MBR controller is currently in
production in a 32-pad QFN package. For a high-resolution photo of a
CY8CMBR2110 device, visit www.cypress.com/go/CY8CMBR2110photo.
About CapSense
Cypress's CapSense touch-sensing solutions have replaced over 4.5
billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer
electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any
system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the
industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's
broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability
with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing
interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not
required. CapSense proximity sensing can provide power savings by
activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing
industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. Learn
more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.
About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions
that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system
value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® 1, PSoC
3, PSoC 4, and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families. Cypress is
the world leader in capacitive user interface solutions including
CapSense touch sensing, TrueTouch® touchscreens, and trackpad
solutions for notebook PCs and peripherals. Cypress is a world leader in
USB controllers, which enhance connectivity and performance in a wide
range of consumer and industrial products. Cypress is also the world
leader in SRAM and nonvolatile RAM memories. Cypress serves numerous
major markets, including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data
communications, automotive, industrial, and military. Cypress trades on
the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit
Cypress online at www.cypress.com.
Cypress, the Cypress logo, CapSense, PSoC, and TrueTouch are registered
trademarks and CapSense Express, EZ-Click and SmartSense are trademarks
of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of
their owners.
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