Cypress Semiconductor improves the accuracy of its touch interface for 1 mm accurate stylus tip

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a new high accurate passive stylus support for capacitive touchscreen technology with a 1-mm accurate tip, which offers additional levels of accuracy and control for text entry, keyboard, handwriting recognition and other productive functions for mobile applications.

Cypress says that stylus accuracy enables users to enter complex Asian characters and to point to ever-smaller icons used in mobile phone user interfaces.

"The unprecedented level of accuracy of our stylus support will enable us to transform a broad range of markets," said Dhwani Vyas, vice president of the User Interface Business Unit at Cypress. "Watching the video, you can clearly see the system level performance our TrueTouch technology delivers. TrueTouch combines the best of both worlds: 1 mm stylus support accurate enough to draw detailed characters, such as in traditional Chinese, along with the multitouch capability, transparency, scratch-resistance and all-around durability of capacitive touchscreens. I'm proud of the technical achievement of our team, and think many potential customers will be excited about this new capability."

Availability: From second quarter of 2010

For more details visit www.cypress.com