Atmel Announces maXTouch, New Fully Integrated Capacitive Touchscreen Technology

maXTouch is a new fully integrated capacitive touchscreen technology and provides touchscreen performance which significantly exceeds today’s leading edge solutions. maXTouch represents the market’s first fully integrated, unlimited touch, low power touchscreen solution. An unlimited number of unique touch points can be read and utilized through Atmel’s advanced maXTouch algorithms. Advanced chip functions related to user gestures such as zoom, rotate, flick and tap are also recognized and reported. The maXTouch technology provides excellent multiple touch finger adjacency for screen sizes surpassing 10″. In addition, it enables extremely fast reporting of touch positions to the host, which means that there is no compromise in the user experience enabling advanced features such as handwriting recognition. The maXTouch technology also reports ‘size of the touch’ and ‘width of line’, and is the first capacitive technology based solution that recognizes stylus and finger nails as touch input…