Touchscreen with 25mm hover distance & 50% reduced touch power

The proliferation of smart devices along with the innovation in display technologies have put many challenging requirements on touchscreen technology. The touchscreens not only have to operate with thin noisier displays, cheaper noisier chargers and numerous environmental noise sources, but also have to work with thick gloves in cold climates, moisture in humid environments and stylus for content creation.

The maXTouch U architecture is designed to service these requirements, enabling a hover distance of 25mm while cutting the touch power by 50%. This family provides full in-cell integration without requiring costly display synchronisation for the OEM, enabling the fastest touch response for users compared to any competing solution today.

maXTouch U series allows multi-finger operation with moisture on the screen and supports side-buttons for an easy user experience. The high signal-to-noise ratio supports 1mm passive and active stylus handwriting with full palm rejection for a flawless content creation experience.

“Competing touch solutions do not have the fundamental building blocks required to support the technical demands of thinner and flexible advanced displays,” said Binay Bajaj, Senior Director, Touch Marketing, Atmel Corporation. “Meeting these technological demands, the maXTouch U family is truly a testament to the team’s innovative engineering techniques. Leading OEMs are extremely excited to use this architecture to achieve unprecedented touch performance for next-generation products.”

The maXTouch mXT874U is the first sampling product in this family.