San Jose, Calif. — Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has introduced the CapSense Express capacitive touch sensing solution for fast and easy button and slider replacement. The Programmable System-on-Chip ...

Capacitive touch sensing has been traditionally used as a design differentiating technology to enable superior aesthetic designs for automotive infotainment applications. With devices maturing to the ...

There’s no denying the impact that smartphones and tablets have had on modern vehicles. Look into just about any new car and you’ll find a touchscreen and maybe even a bank of capacitive touch buttons ...

A second automaker has realized that going all-out on capacitive touch buttons is the wrong move. First, Honda backtracked, giving the 10th-generation Civic a physical volume knob to replace the touch ...

Capacitive touch buttons are a great way to turn just about any (non-conductive) surface into a button, but people generally dislike the lack of tactile feedback. [KontinuumLab] apparently agreed and ...

Volkswagen knows the capacitive touch buttons in its interiors are hated. In an interview with U.K. publication Car Magazine, CEO Thomas Schäfer says an overhaul is on the way, with hardware fixes ...

The new touch sensing technology replaces traditional buttons and knobs and allows occupants to control vehicle functions with a fingertip – similar to touch screen technologies used in consumer ...

In an application using a pin-limited microcontroller (MCU), I needed to scan an array of 16 buttons. The technique I used involved a series string of resistors of identical value connected between ...