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Grapevine
We call this section GRAPEVINE because Stantum is headquartered in Bordeaux, France, known worldwide for the Bordeaux variety wine. When we first began using the word in Touch Point, it reflected how our customers initially learned about our multi-touch technology. In this edition, the word grapevine connotes growth and the ways our new partnership with STMicroelectronics supports the burgeoning market demand for advanced multi-touch capability in a variety of high-tech devices and applications.
Could you tell our readers about STMicroelectronics?
STMicroelectronics is a global leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications with innovative semiconductor solutions. Among its large portfolio of products, STMicroelectronics is developing Microcontrollers (MCUs) with 2 main families STM8 (8-bit MCUs) and STM32 (32-bits MCUs). To serve the fast growing touch market, STM is now developing touch solutions by combining with dedicated IPs combined with these two main MCU architectures.
What made you choose Stantum technology?
STMicroelectronics wanted to boost and access the multi-touch screen market with an innovative, differentiated & field proven technology. Stantum’s technology and its PMatrix IP allowed us to develop and bring to the market a single-chip multi-touch controller based on our STM32 architecture. Most importantly, Stantum's unique technology is especially suited to the consumer electronics products we’re targeting, such as tablet PCs, netbooks, and notebooks.
How will the Stantum partnership benefit STMicroelectronics and its customers?
The partnership allowed STMicroelectronics to incorporate Stantum’s patented multi-touch screen technology into our STM32TS60 screen controller. It offers our customers a real alternative to the recent industry trend toward using capacitive multi-touch despite its limitations – providing unique features such as finger and stylus input, finger-pressure detection, and EMI immunity.
Describe the implementation of Stantum’s technology in the STM32TS60.
The STM32TS60 offers the best of multi-touch technology, thanks to ST’s highly efficient STM32 microcontroller architecture and Stantum’s pioneering approach. It has the capacity to drive small to medium touch panels – up to 11 inches – with single- or dual-chip architectures. It is housed in a 7 x 7-millimeter 144-pin UFBGA package and detects up to 10 simultaneous touches with any contact object, even a gloved hand. This enables application designers to replace complex menu sequences with more direct and natural user controls.
The STM32TS60