Touch-sensitive controls are convenient and attractive for end users, and can enhance product reliability, ingress protection, and cost-effectiveness. On the other hand, development can be challenging. Using a conventional iterative design approach, optimising to eliminate unwanted effects and ensure consistent responses for touch sensing in all operating conditions can involve building multiple prototypes.
ST and Fieldscale now enable STM32 customers to take a faster and more efficient route to market by introducing support for ST’s Arm Cortex-based 32-bit microcontrollers to Fieldscale’s SENSE development platform.
The latest versionFieldscale SENSE, an end-to-end solution for the design, schematic capture, and system-level simulation of capacitive touch sensors, lets STM32 users design the graphical appearance of the touch sensor and the PCB layout, and easily build a virtual system model for simulation.
The cloud-based development platform implements sophisticated electromagnetic algorithms which drives accurate prediction of the system performance. Users can optimise the design and quickly re-simulate to fine-tune the performance before committing to hardware. With greater assurance that first prototypes will deliver close to the desired performance, users can lower development costs and accelerate time to market.
“We are thrilled to partner with ST and work as an ST Authorised Partner. In Fieldscale, our goal is to offer to all capacitive-touch design engineers, a complete software solution supporting them end-to-end, from the early design up to the tuning of the final system. Integrating STM32 support is a major achievement towards this goal and we couldn’t be more satisfied.” said Yiorgos Bontzios, PhD, Fieldscale CEO and Co-Founder.
Patrice Hamard, Microcontroller Product Marketing Manager, STMicroelectronics, added, “Customers using our STM32 microcontrollers can now take full advantage of Fieldscale SENSE to implement simple and intuitive touch-based controls for smart devices and give their products a competitive edge.”