TI Launches Industry's Most Flexible Haptic and Capacitive Touch Combo Solution to Realize 'Haptics for Everyone'
Published2013.12.27 15:09
TI Korea (CEO Kent Jeon, www.ti.com/ww/kr ) December 11, 2013 – TI Korea (CEO Kent Jeon) has further expanded its extensive portfolio of capacitive touch solutions by announcing the industry's most flexible combo solution that combines haptic and capacitive touch on a single chip. The new MSP430TCH5E haptic driver microcontroller enables users to respond to vibrations on all capacitive touch buttons, sliders, and wheels used in mobile computing and gaming devices, smart TV remotes, cameras, printers, industrial control panels, POS terminals, toys, and more. Licensed with Immersion's TouchSense® 2200 software, the MSP430TCH5E MCU allows developers to easily add and adjust 122 different haptic effects, including effect chaining and audio-to-haptics capabilities. TI is collaborating with Immersion to provide industry-leading haptic technology with object codes that can be integrated with other applications, such as capacitive touch.
The new MSP430TCH5E MCU can additionally be configured with TI's open-source MSP430™ capacitive touch software library. Furthermore, developers can use the new PC-based MSP430 Capacitive Touch Pro GUI tool to evaluate, diagnose, and adjust capacitive touch button, slider, and wheel designs in real time. Other user-configurable ranges, recording, and printing options are also provided.
To enable developers to quickly add haptics to their designs, Element14 has introduced the HapTouch™ BoosterPack, which combines the MSP430TCH5E haptic MCU and TI's DRV2603 haptic driver in a familiar game controller form factor. By plugging this new BoosterPack into TI's MSP430 Value Line LaunchPad evaluation kit, users can easily configure capacitive touch buttons that provide audio-haptic feedback. Suitable for a wide range of professional engineering, hobby, and university projects, this BoosterPack is available for immediate purchase from Element14. A fully programmable Software Development Kit (SDK) is also provided.
Key Features and Benefits of TI's Flexible New Haptic Technology
● Includes industry-leading immersion TouchSense 2200 haptic software
● Over 120 diverse haptic effects for buttons, alerts, and gestures, including advanced features such as audio haptics and effect chains
● Access to the HAPTOUCH Software Development Kit (SDK) for custom HMI development
● Increased haptic design flexibility by supporting both LRA (Linear Resonant Actuators) and ERM (Eccentric Rotating Machine) actuators
● Provides an easy-to-implement reference design with TI's DRV2603 haptic driver for optimized actuator driving, and the MSP430TCH5E MCU supports developer experimentation and accelerated time-to-market.
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