Texas Instruments Chooses Synaptics ClearPad for the Blaze Mobile Development Platform

“With the Blaze MDP, Synaptics is setting the standard for touchscreen-based interaction for future mobile devices,” said Andrew Hsu, technology strategist for Synaptics. “Mobile phone OEMs now have an out-of-the-box ClearPad-enabled software development environment for architecting new user experiences for future handsets.”

“Synaptics’ gesture-enabled ClearPad solution, combined with TI’s high-performance OMAP 4 platform, demonstrates powerful touch, responsiveness and processing capabilities,” said Robert Tolbert, director of OMAP product marketing, TI. “By offering a complete hardware and software package with ClearPad, the Blaze MDP simplifies software user interface development, shortens design cycles, and enables exciting new mobile user experiences based on innovative sensor technologies.”

“Synaptics has long advocated the need for powerful graphics processing in mobile devices to improve the device interaction and user experience,” said Gopal Garg, senior vice president of Synaptics’ handheld business unit and corporate marketing. “We are delighted to see such progress aligned with our ClearPad development for complete and reliable touchscreen solutions that will enable the next wave of mobile innovation with intuitive gestures and advanced interfaces.”

Synaptics ClearPad Series offers the broadest portfolio of advanced, proven capacitive touchscreen technology. These high-resolution capacitive touchscreen solutions bring users rich functionality and enhanced usability.