While fixed function capacitive sensing solutions in the market can ease some of these burdens, those devices are rarely pure ‘drop-in’ solutions, as many still rely on developer-side configuration and calibration. Additionally, fixed function solutions prevent developers from giving the sensor additional responsibilities in a system, which can lower system current consumption, reduce board size, and decrease BOM cost.
The capacitive sensing solutions developed by Silicon Labs as part of the launch of the EFM8 8-bit MCU line help designers through each step of the development process, enabling customers to generate projects with a built-in capacitive sensing firmware library, add and debug features with an intuitive and powerful Simplicity Studio IDE and view real-time capacitive sensing performance in-system using the Capacitive Sensing Profiler visualisation tool.
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