SENSE Manual

Contents of SENSE Manual

Sections and structure of SENSE Manual

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What can you get from SENSE

SENSE is the only app specifically designed for end-to-end capacitive touch sensor design and analysis.

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Physical Model

What is the Physical Model of a touch sensor and how you can get its Capacitance values, the whole Equivalent Circuit and many more...

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System Model

What is the purpose of the System Model of a touch sensor, how can you configure your controller and get counts

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Intro to Layout

A brief description of Layout, Elements and Canvas

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Canvas

Description of canvas functionality

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Add Elements in the Canvas

How to add Layout Elements in the Canvas through templates

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Screen templates

Details of Screen Elements that you can Add in the Canvas through templates

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Manhattan Double Layer

Detailed description of Screen Element template of Manhattan Double Layer

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Diamond Double Layer

Detailed description of Screen Element template of Diamond Double Layer

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Diamond Co-Planar

Detailed description of Screen Element template of Diamond Co-Planar

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Button templates

Description of the design templates that allow you to easily add touch buttons in your layout.

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Slider templates

Description of the design templates that allow you to easily add touch sliders in your layout.

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Wheel templates

Description of the design templates that allow you to easily add touch wheels in your layout.

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Traces templates

How to design the traces of your layout through templates

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Via templates

Details on Via Elements that you can Add in the Canvas through templates

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Shielding Entity templates

Specific details of Shielding Entity Elements that you can Add in the Canvas through templates

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Outline templates

Specific details of Outline Elements that you can Add in the Canvas through templates

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Import Elements in the Canvas

How to import Layout Elements through dxf or Gerber files

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How to import a .dxf file

How to import your Layout design through .dxf files

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How to import a Gerber file

How to import your layout design through Gerber files

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Import one unit cell of a pattern

How to import just one unit cell of a pattern and easily replicate it to build the whole touchscreen

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Intro to StackUp

What can you do in SENSE StackUp option

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StackUp of Materials

Here is how you can build the Stackup of materials of your sensor

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Vias in StackUp

Here is how you can connect your multi-layer PCB conductive parts etc. using VIAS bridges

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Intro to Pointers

What can you do with SENSE's Pointers

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Pointer Creation

How to create a pointer to simulate a touch event

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Pointer Placements

How to create placements for your pointers

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How to get Resistance values

How to run Resistance Analysis to extract resistance values of the conductive parts of your layout.

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How to get Capacitance values

How to run Capacitance Analysis to extract mutual and self capacitance values

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How to run an Equivalent Circuit Analysis

Using SENSE to extract the Equivalent Circuit of your touch sensor

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Example Controller

Touch sensing circuit based on the Charge Transfer Method

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Controller

Controller library in SENSE, configuration settings, Pins and more

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Sensor

How is a Sensor defined from a System point of view

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System Configuration

How is a Sensor interfacing with the Controller

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(System) Analysis - Controller Counts

How to perform a System level analysis in SENSE

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(System) Analysis - Conducted Noise

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