Product Summary

The AD7142 and AD7142-1 are integrated capacitance-to-digital converters (CDCs) with on-chip environmental calibration for use in systems requiring a novel user input method. The AD7142 and AD7142-1 can interface to external capacitance sensors implementing functions such as capacitive buttons, scroll bars, or wheels.The CDC has 14 inputs channeled through a switch matrix to a 16-bit, 250 kHz sigma-delta (Σ-Δ) capacitance-to-digital converter. The CDC is capable of sensing changes in the capacitance of the external sensors and uses this information to register a sensor activation. The external sensors can be arranged as a series of buttons, as a scroll bar or wheel, or as a combination of sensor types. By programming the registers, the user has full control over the CDC setup. High resolution sensors require minor software to run on the host processor.

Parametrics

supply voltage: 2.6V-2.7V
Storage Temperature: -40°C-85°C
package: LFCSP
Bits: 16bit
mounting type: surface mount

Features

Programmable capacitance-to-digital converter
36 ms update rate (@ maximum sequence length)
Better than 1 fF resolution
14 capacitance sensor input channels
No external RC tuning components required
Automatic conversion sequencer
On-chip automatic calibration logic
Automatic compensation for environmental changes
Automatic adaptive threshold and sensitivity levels
On-chip RAM to store calibration data
SPI?-compatible serial interface (AD7142)
I2C?-compatible serial interface (AD7142-1)
Separate VDRIVE level for serial interface
Interrupt output and GPIO
32-lead, 5 mm x 5 mm LFCSP_VQ
2.6 V to 3.6 V supply voltage
Low operating current
Full power mode: less than 1 mA
Low power mode: 50 μA

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