SAN JOSE, Calif., June 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Atmel® Corporation
(NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch
technology solutions, today expanded its industry-leading maXTouch
U series of touchscreen controllers, providing the perfect blend of
performance, power and size. The new devices enable virtually any
touchscreen from 1.2" to 10.1" to deliver superior touch
performance and ultra-low power in various form factors.
The six new devices expand the maXTouch U series with the
industry's best touch performance and lowest power leveraging its
proprietary picoPower technology. Designers can now build
innovative thin and flexible touchscreen designs using single
layer, on-cell and hybrid in-cell touchscreens with intelligent
wake-up gestures and buttons. Atmel is the only supplier to provide
a single platform using the company's latest touch technology to
support touchscreens for applications ranging from wearables to
entry-level smartphones, super phones and tablets on a full range
of stack-ups including on-cell and hybrid in-cell.
With the proliferation of touchscreens over the last 5 years,
there has been a continued need to develop touchscreens with
extremely high touch performance, ultra-low power and more
sophisticated industrial designs with thinner screens. Furthermore,
the anticipated growth of the wearables market has created a demand
for extremely small touchscreen controllers with ultra-low power
consumption in tiny packaging. Atmel addresses this demand with
devices in its new maXTouch U series packaged in an ultra-tiny
2.5mm x 2.6mm Wafer-Level Chip Scale Package (WLCSP).
Atmel's portfolio of maXTouch U series addresses all the
requirements for next-generation touchscreens and is built from the
ground up with the company's proven ultra-low power MCU and leading
touch technology. The portfolio of devices support differentiated
features for a variety of touchscreen applications including 1.0mm
passive stylus, water rejection with stylus operation, multi-finger
glove touch, up to 20mm hover and ultra-low power modes down to
10µW in deep sleep for wearable applications.
"Atmel's industry-leading maXTouch U series provides all the
necessary building blocks including ultra-low power and smaller
form factors to enable our OEMs to differentiate their designs,"
said Binay Bajaj, Sr. Director of
Touch Marketing, Atmel Corporation. "Our expertise in ultra-low
power MCUs and innovative touch engineering have allowed us to
bring a superior series of devices to market that is truly an
innovative collection to drive next-generation touchscreens. We are
a leading provider of touchscreen devices to a variety of markets
adopting capacitive touchscreens."
Key features of the six new maXTouch U devices
include:
- mXT735U is the perfect device for the entry level tablet
delivering robust moisture support and excellent noise immunity for
touchscreens up to 10.1".
- mXT640U supports touchscreens up to 6". This device
supports 1mm passive stylus support and thin stack support
including 0.4mm cover lens for GFF stack, up to 25mm hover
detection and moisture resistance.
- mXT416U delivers extremely high touch performance including
2.5mm passive stylus, excellent moisture support, noise immunity
and up to 30mm large finger touch detection.
- mXT336U is targeted for mid-range smartphone applications,
delivering a perfect balance between performance and form
factor.
- mXT308U is targeted for low-end smartphone applications
emphasizing simplicity and robustness.
- mXT144U is designed specifically for wearable applications. The
mXT144U features picoPower with 10uW in deep sleep mode and is the
smallest hybrid sensing touchscreen controller packaged in a 2.5mm
x 2.6mm WLCSP. This device is the ideal solution for today and
tomorrow's wearable devices.
More information for the maXTouch U series is available at:
http://www.atmel.com/microsite/maxtouch-U-series/default.aspx.
Availability
All new maXTouch U devices are sampling today. Production
quantities for the mXT735U, mXT640U and mXT416U will be available
in Q3 2015, and early Q4 2015 for the mXT336U, mXT308 and
mXT144U.
More Information
Atmel maXTouch U series:
http://www.atmel.com/products/touchsolutions/touchscreens/default.aspx
Atmel picoPower technology:
http://www.atmel.com/technologies/lowpower/default.aspx
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About Atmel
Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) is a worldwide leader in the
design and manufacture of microcontrollers, capacitive touch
solutions, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and
radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's
broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is
able to provide the electronics industry with intelligent and
connected solutions focused on the industrial, automotive,
consumer, communications and computing markets.
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