Texas Instruments' (TI) solutions for touch enabled applications include ultra-low power MSP430 microcontrollers, capacitive and resistive touch screen controllers as well as inertial and piezo haptic actuator drivers.

Buttons, Sliders and Wheels

Enabling the world’s lowest power touch sense capabilities on all MSP430™ MCUs, the capacitive touch portfolio from Texas Instruments introduces new hardware and free software to give developers easy-to-use, cost effective options for microcontroller-based capacitive touch applications, while still benefitting from the battery-saving features of the MSP430.

MSP430 Capacitive Touch Features:

• Supported by all MSP430 Microcontrollers
• Ultra-Low-Power touch buttons down to 1µA
• Supports buttons, sliders, wheels & proximity sensors
• Free Touch Sense Software Library consuming as little as 1KB

• Capacitive Touch Sense Library
• ValueLine G2xx2 Datasheet
• Order Capacitive Touch BoosterPack

Device	Flash [KB]	RAM [Bytes]	Capacitive Touch Features		Touch Buttons Supported	Additional Features		Datasheet	Samples
			Touch Sense IO1	Timer_D2		Digital	Analog
MSP430G2x02	1-8	128-256			≤ 16	USI3		Download	Order
MSP430G2x32	1-8	128-256			≤ 16	USI	ADC10	Download	Order
MSP430G2x13	1-16	256-512			≤ 24	USCI4	Comp	Download	Order
MSP430G2x52	1-8	256			≤ 16	USCI	Comp, ADC10	Download	Order
MSP430G2x53	1-16	256-512			≤ 24	USCI	Comp, ADC10	Download	Order
MSP430G2x03	2-8	256-512			≤ 24	USCI		Download	Order
MSP430G2x33	2-16	256-512			≤ 24	USCI	Comp, ADC10	Download	Order
MSP430F51x1	8-32	1024-2048			≤ 29	USCI	Comp	Download	Order
MSP430F51x2	8-32	1024-2048			≤ 29	USCI	Comp, ADC10	Download	Order

¹ Touch Sense IO: each I/O supports pin oscillation enabling low-cost touch sensing with no external components
² Timer_D: high-resolution 4ns timer for high-precision touch sensing
³ USI: serial communication interface supporting SPI and I2C
⁴ USCI: serial communication interface supporting I2C, UART and 2x SPI

MSP430 Capacitive Touch Sense Software Library

The royalty-free MSP430 Capacitive Touch Sense Software Library gives developers the option to add touch sense capabilities to any MSP430 microcontroller consuming as little as 1KB of program memory. The open-source software library eliminates the need to develop complex touch sensing algorithms and supports various capacitive touch sensors, including buttons, sliders, wheels and proximity.

Capacitive Touch Optimized Microcontrollers

The Capacitive Touch Sense Software Library supports all MSP430 devices, and some include new peripherals optimized for touch sensing. The MSP430 Value Line G2xx2/3 devices include capacitive touch sense IOs, which enable developers to interface directly with capacitive touch pads without external components. The MSP430F51x2 devices include Timer_D, a high-performance timer featuring a 4 nanosecond resolution, enabling high-precision touch sensing.