Synaptics - Capacitive Touchscreen Solutions with Latest ClearPad Innovations

ClearPad for Mobile Devices and Handheld Applications
ClearPad 3200 supports stylus input for display sizes up to 5” and incorporates updates to the most proven analog front end (AFE) in the industry that has shipped in over 900 million devices. ClearPad 3200 offers industry-leading 41 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), enabling a 1.5 mm stylus and disambiguates it from up to 10 fingers. ClearPad 3200 also improves overall device usability by minimizing touchscreen sensitivity issues associated with noisy handset power supplies and environmental and display noise. Overall device battery life is best-in-class with ClearPad 3200’s advanced power optimization circuits and algorithms. Other key features of ClearPad 3200 include:

* Low-latency finger tracking: 120 Hz report rate for up to 10 fingers
* Raw sensor output enables advanced capabilities such as host-device gesture processing
* Compatibility for Sensor-on-Lens, chip on main board, on-cell, and in-cell implementations

Other recent product innovations for handheld applications include:

* The recently-announced ClearPad Series 4 offers Synaptics state-of-the-art ClearPad multi-touch technology with the display driver (DDI) into a single-chip solution. Additional details on the products are available here.
* ClearPad 1100 displaces legacy resistive solutions with a low-cost capacitive solution, facilitating mass-market adoption in mobile devices. It offers a superior user experience with best-in-class single-finger and pinch gesturing in a true single-layer sensor structure that eliminates metal jumpers, fine-pitched routing, and shield layers.

ClearPad for Tablets, Slates, and Fourth-Screen Applications
ClearPad 7020, the latest addition to the Series 7 large touchscreen portfolio is a single-chip solution for display sizes up to 10.1” in products ranging from digital photo frames to multi-touch slates and tablets. ClearPad 7020 brings a higher level of performance to single-chip solutions in its class:

* Low-latency finger tracking: 80 Hz report rate for up to 11 fingers
* Raw sensor output enables advanced capabilities such as host-device gesture processing
* Exceptional robustness against power supply, environmental, and display noise
* Optimized power management for best-in-class battery life

“ClearPad 3200 and 7020 target the accelerating demand for touch across a wide spectrum of mobile and consumer electronics. More importantly, both products build on the foundation of Synaptics’ decades-long focus on capacitive touch in the most demanding consumer electronics,” said Kevin Barber, senior vice president and general manager of Synaptics' Handheld Division. “Synaptics’ system engineering and technical expertise help our partners accelerate time-to-market and create the seamless, intuitive, touch experience that consumers demand.”