Cypress introduced the new CapSense Express™ capacitive touch sensing solution. Based on proven CapSense Touch Sensing technology, it provides the industry's easiest and quickest way to replace mechanical buttons and sliders.

The CapSense Express™ devices offer up to 10 IO´s, configurable as either capacitive sensing elements (buttons / slider), or GPIOs, driving LEDs etc.

For battery-powered applications, the devices offer low power consumption of just 1 mA active current and 2.6 µA in sleep mode. The new devices offer a wide operating voltage of 2.4V to 5.25V and an industrial temperature range of -40º C to +85º C. In addition, 2 Kb of Flash memory and an I2C communication interface are provided.

Three CapSense™ Express evaluation kits are available at MSC:

CY3218-CAPEXP1 (for CY8C20110 / 3 Buttons) , CY3218-CAPEXP2 ( for CY8C201A0 / 5Segment Slider) and CY3218-CAPEXP3 ( for CY8C20142 / 2 Buttons)