12th Mar 09
OMRON and Renesas are partnering
to develop touch sensor solutions
OMRON Corporation and Renesas Technology agreed to jointly
develop capacitive touch sensor 1 solutions. Based on this
agreement, Renesas will integrate OMRON's touch sensor technology
into its R8C Family 16-bit microcontroller (MCU) products
and supply touch sensor solutions for a wide range of fields,
including household appliances and mobile devices.
Touch panels are increasingly being used in a wide variety
of products, including household appliances, AV equipment,
office equipment, game machines, mobile phones, and portable
music players.
By creating a hardware version of OMRON's proven touch
sensor technology in the form of a touch detection circuit
device and integrating it into Renesas' R8C Family of microcontroller
products as a single chip solution, Renesas is providing
cost and design benefits to its customers.
Yasushi Akao, Renesas Technology board director and executive
general manager of the MCU business group, said, "I
think that by fusing our MCU and analog peripheral circuit
technology, two of Renesas' strengths, with capacitive touch
sensor technology from OMRON, we will be able to offer our
customers MCUs with highly reliable and cost-effective touch
sensor functionality. I am confident that our low-power
solutions will increase adoption of our products in a wide
range of new applications and help revitalize the market
by enabling the creation of new products with distinctive
designs."
Soichi Yukawa, OMRON senior managing officer and electronic
components company president, remarked, "In recent
years, touch sensors have come to be used as the input method
for many electronic products, but there have been problems
regarding design flexibility and convenience. I am confident
that the products that will result from this joint development
project will combine sensor technology and MCU technology-the
core competences of the two partners-to realize systems
with a new level of 'user friendliness' and lead to wider
adoption of touch interfaces."
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