Date: 08/09/2009

New TrueTouchT touchscreen controllers with programmable system-on-chip

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced the new TMA300 family, a fully integrated TrueTouchT touchscreen controllers based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture. The suggested applications of these new controllers are mobile handsets, portable media players, netbooks, notebooks, printers, digital still cameras, GPS systems and other portable applications.

The TMA300 family represents the next generation of multi-touch all-point technology with integrated analog sensing engine that allows fast and accurate tracking of multiple fingers simultaneously with precise x-y locations and without user delays or problems with erroneous "ghost" responses. And also supports gestures such as tap, double-tap, pan, pinch, scroll, and rotate, and also provide a unique platform to create custom gestures without being constrained to two-finger touch.

The TMA300 family features including low-cost 3mm passive stylus input, proximity detection that enables ear/face/palm rejection, water proofing and a "hover" feature that meets the touch requirements for operating systems such as Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile and Windows7. And also offers noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments.

"Our new multi-touch all-point TrueTouch family has been designed-in to multiple platforms by top-tier manufacturers," said Chris Seams, executive vice president of Sales and Marketing at Cypress. "Our customers continue to choose TrueTouch for its performance, flexibility and value."

"Cypress's new multi-touch touchscreen controllers deliver the industry's fastest and most accurate tracking, and the excellent power consumption required by world-class consumer electronics devices," said Norm Taffe, executive vice president of the Consumer and Computation Division at Cypress. "These improvements add to the TrueTouch architecture's advantages of programmability and integration, as well as the flexibility to choose from a wide range of touchscreen module suppliers."

Operating input voltage range: 1.7V to 3.6V

Package:
TMA300: tiny chip-scale package (CSP) and 0.6mm QFN package
CY8CTMA300E with 32 Kbytes of Flash: 36- and 48-pin QFN, 49-pin chip-scale package
CY8CTMA301E with 16 Kbytes of Flash: 36- and 48-pin QFN package

Availability: Now
For more details visit www.cypress.com