15323 an2927 用于触摸感应应用的rc采样原理(2009年2月).pdf

AN2927 Application note RC acquisition principle for touch sensing applications Introduction In applications requiring user interface, capacitive touch-sensitive controls are becoming the solution of choice to replace conventional electro-mechanical switches. STMicroelectronics has developed a complete touch-sensing software library to transform any 8-bit STM8 microcontroller into a capacitive touchkey controller. For more details, please go to /mcu This touch sensing software library allows to detect human touch by controlling the charge/discharge timing cycle of a RC network formed by a single resistor and the touch electrode capacitance. Any variation in the RC timing due to the electrode capacity change is detected then filtered and eventually reported to a host system using dedicated I/Os or I2C/SPI interface. The bill of material is low-cost as only one resistor is needed per touch channel to enable this function. The scope of this application note is to describe the RC time constant acquisition principle used in the touch sensing software library. Abbreviations Table 1. List of terms Acronym Description EMI Electromagnetic interference RC Resistor–capacitor TS Library ST touch sensing firmware library March 2009 Rev 2 1/12