《M_touch_技术》.pdf

AN1101 Introduction to Capacitive Sensing A SHORT HISTORY Author: Tom Perme Microchip Technology Inc. While capacitive sensing has been around for more than 50 years, it is becoming increasingly easier to INTRODUCTION implement and more popular. A classic example of a capacitive switch is the Touch Lamp. The Touch Lamp Capacitive sensing is becoming more prevalent and in has been around for a long time, and it is a simple, demand for consumer applications. This application note capacitive switch that turns a light bulb on, off or dims it. introduces one solution for capacitive sensing using sev- New technology allows much more sophisticated eral Microchip parts. The targeted parts of this application control of touch buttons. A key to this has been micro- note are the PIC16F616 family, the PIC16F690 family controllers with mixed signal peripherals. They provide and the PIC16F887 family, representing low-to-high pin the ability to perform capacitive sensing, decision count, 8-bit microcontrollers. making, responsive actions and other duties pertinent Several techniques for capacitive sensing are currently to the system as well. present in industry. Many are based on measuring a frequency or duty cycle which is changed by the intro- CREATING A GOOD SENSOR duction of additional ca