JAJU657 December 2018
The TIDM-02004 design demonstrates the use of capacitive touch gestures to control the play, pause, volume up and down, and next and previous track functions of the Windows Media Player application. Compared with traditional mechanical style buttons, which are limited to only simple interactions, capacitive touch technology opens up new possibilities for product design, enhancing user experience, improving product reliability and reducing product cost.
The focus of this reference design is to show how combining intelligent gesturing firmware with a capacitive touch sensor design can create new possibilities for human-machine inputs. This reference design, along with the accompanying firmware examples, provide the reader a path to implementing similar functionality in their designs. What is not covered in detail in this reference design are details on USB, HID and interfacing to a Windows environment.