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The Atmel® maXTouch™ family of touchscreen controllers offers superior performance and low power consumption in a single IC. maXTouch devices support an unlimited number of touches, greatly enhancing the user experience and changing the way users interact with electronic products. Built-in gestures and the ability to ignore unintentional touches result in a user interface that is intuitive and reliable.
maXTouch Goes Big
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Touching the Leading Edge

maXTouch controllers are extremely responsive, providing real-time characteristics for demanding applications such as handwriting recognition and video games. The high level of resolution and excellent signal-to-noise ratio provided by maXTouch controllers means touchscreens can be used with stylus, fingernails and gloves, providing easy text entry on a handheld device.

The rich feature set makes the devices suitable for any application. They provide unrivalled performance in small-screen mobile phones and Internet devices, and unleash the full potential of a new generation of large-screen tablets, smartbooks, netbooks, and PCs.
Single-Chip Touch Solution for Small Screens

Atmel's maXTouch microcontroller family sets the standard in capacitive touchscreen technology for smartphones and small-format devices, providing the industry's highest-performing, lowest-power multi-touch components. maXTouch controllers feature Atmel's patented charge transfer technology which enhances the traditional approach to mutual capacitance solutions and combines all aspects of advanced touch sensing onto a single chip:

* Unlimited touches
* Low power consumption
* Fast response — completely redraws screen every 4/1000 of a second (4ms) to
eliminate recalibration issues
* Excellent signal-to-noise ratio for superior precision — 3x better than competitive
products
* Superior performance for first-touch response — 3x better than competitive
products
* Unambiguous, unlimited touch support
* Responsive user interface: > 250 Hz report rate for a single touch
* Extremely low current consumption: < 1.8 mW in "touch-ready" state
* Two touch adjacency of less than 10 mm on a 4.3 inch (10.9 cm) touchscreen
* Small footprint with few external components
* Supports stylus, fingernails, and gloves
* Grip and face suppression functionality: avoids false touches
* Size and angle of touch supported
* Screen sizes up to 10.2 inches (25.9 cm) are supported by a single chip
* Proximity channel support


Atmel maXTouch Enables the Big Screen

Atmel's maXTouch technology now supports large format touchscreens up to 15.6 inch (39.6 cm) for emerging products including touch-enabled tablets, smartbooks, mobile Internet devices (MIDs), Netbooks, PC notebooks and a range of industrial applications. With true unlimited touch functionality and stylus support, the maXTouch chip technology will enable exciting new software applications and user interactions on one screen. Atmel's solution provides:

* True multi-touch capability with support for up to 16 fingers
* Fastest response times in the industry
* Industry-leading power consumption to preserve battery life
* Rejection of unintended touches
* Stretch/pinch and rotate gestures
* Stylus support
* Handwriting and shape recognition
* Industry-leading accuracy, linearity, and signal-to-noise

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