MIKROE Touchpad 4 Click

MIKROE Touchpad 4 Click is a compact add-on board that easily integrates projected capacitive touch into user's applications. This board features the IQS7211A a tiny capacitive touch controller from Azoteq. A low-power dedicated wake-up touch controller launches a complete touchscreen sensing solution with a 25.4 x 29mm trackpad dimension best-in-class sensitivity and power consumption. It is characterized by embedded gesture engine recognition for simple gestures (tap swipes hold) and built-in noise detection and filtering. This Click board™ is suitable for human-machine interfaces keypad or scrolling functions single-finger gesture-based interfaces and more. Touchpad 4 Click is supported by a mikroSDK compliant library which includes functions that simplify software development. Touchpad 4 Click as its foundation uses the IQS7211A a tiny trackpad controller designed for multitouch applications using a projected capacitance touch panel from Azoteq. The IQS7211A is part of Azoteq’s latest range of ProxFusion combination sensors a multi-sensor technology that offers combinations of capacitive sensing Hall-effect inductive and temperature sensing on a single integrated circuit. It allows users to control a trackpad of up to 32-channels and offers high resolution and fast response low power consumption and long-term activation supported by environmental tracking. It is also characterized by embedded gesture engine recognition for simple gestures (tap swipes hold) and built-in noise detection and filtering. On the Touchpad 4 Click front side there is a clearly defined field that represents a touchpad area. This area is a matrix of conductive electrodes on the PCB electrically isolated from each other arranged as rows and columns of X and Y. An electrode consists of multiple diamond-shaped elements each connected to the next with a conductive neck. The controller uses the principle of projected capacitance charge transfer on the touchpad area. When a conductive object such as a human finger approaches the sense plate it will decrease the detected capacitance. Observing the measured results at various sensing points on the touchpad area enables the controller to determine proximity/hover detection and contact (touch) detection on all channels and accurately determine the coordinates on the touch area. Touchpad 4 Click communicates with MCU using a standard I2C 2-Wire interface with a clock frequency up to 1MHz in the Fast Mode. An additional ready signal routed on the INT pin of the mikroBUS™ socket is added which indicates when the communication window is available. Thus it is optimal for the response rate to use the INT pin as a communication trigger. Alongside this pin this Click board™ has a Reset feature routed to the RST pin on the mikroBUS™ socket which with a low logic level puts the module into a Reset state and with a high level operates module normally. This Click board™ can be operated only with a 3.3V logic voltage level. The board must perform appropriate logic voltage level conversion before use with MCUs with different logic levels. However the Click board™ comes equipped with a library containing functions and an example code that can be used as a reference for further development.