Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has introduced the TMA140 TrueTouch controllers for lower-cost mobile phones. The new family offers high-performance touchscreen control, including multi-finger support and best-in-class Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) for screens of up to five inches. The new controllers also support Cypress's patent-pending Charger Armor feature, which uses adaptive frequency hopping and other techniques to prevent false touches due to excessive noise from a charger.
The new TMA140 family delivers high performance multi-touch capabilities on a feature phone budget. The low power family offers better than 0.5-mm accuracy, delivers gesture capability, works flawlessly with Android and is now in mass production.
John Carey, Director, TrueTouch Marketing, Cypress said, "By delivering a high-performance solution for the lower-cost phone market, Cypress is offering our customers a chance to shine versus their competition in very high volume markets. We also have announced the SLIM sensor that enables true multi-touch into lower-cost phones via a single-layer sensor. TrueTouch now offers the industry's best solution for the hottest new smartphones (our Gen4 controllers) as well as lower cost features phones, and everyt
