Bridget Klebaur 12.12.13
Texas Instruments (TI) announced the industry's most flexible haptics and capacitive touch combo solution on one chip. The new MSP430TCH5E haptics-enabled microcontrollers allow users to add vibrational feedback to all capacitive touch buttons, sliders and wheels on mobile computing and gaming devices, smart TV remotes, cameras, printers, industrial control panels, point-of-sale terminals and toys.
Featuring a license for Immersion TouchSense 2200 software, MSP430TCH5E MCUs allow developers to easily add and tune 122 different haptics effects, including effect chaining and audio-to-haptics functionalities. TI collaborated with Immersion to provide the industry's leading haptic technology as an object code that can be integrated with other applications like capacitive touch.
To help developers quickly add haptics to their designs, Element14 has created the HapTouch BoosterPack that combines MSP430TCH5E haptics MCUs and TI's DRV2603 haptic driver into a familiar game controller form factor. The new BoosterPack can be plugged into TI's MSP430 Value Line LaunchPad evaluation kit to demonstrate the ease of configuring capacitive touch buttons that provide audio-to-haptics feedback. The new BoosterPack is ideal for a wide range of professional engineering, hobbyist and university projects and is available immediately from Element14. A fully programmable software development kit (SDK) is also provided.
Featuring a license for Immersion TouchSense 2200 software, MSP430TCH5E MCUs allow developers to easily add and tune 122 different haptics effects, including effect chaining and audio-to-haptics functionalities. TI collaborated with Immersion to provide the industry's leading haptic technology as an object code that can be integrated with other applications like capacitive touch.
To help developers quickly add haptics to their designs, Element14 has created the HapTouch BoosterPack that combines MSP430TCH5E haptics MCUs and TI's DRV2603 haptic driver into a familiar game controller form factor. The new BoosterPack can be plugged into TI's MSP430 Value Line LaunchPad evaluation kit to demonstrate the ease of configuring capacitive touch buttons that provide audio-to-haptics feedback. The new BoosterPack is ideal for a wide range of professional engineering, hobbyist and university projects and is available immediately from Element14. A fully programmable software development kit (SDK) is also provided.