San Jose, Calif. – Renesas Technology America, Inc., has launched a new generation of microcontrollers (MCUs) with on-chip sensor control unit (SCU) for capacitive-touch applications. The devices in ...

The RX260 and RX261 groups of 32-bit MCUs from Renesas feature a capacitive touch sensing unit with high noise immunity and water resistance. These 64-MHz microcontrollers consume 69 µA/MHz when ...

Capacitive wireless-power-transfer technology has the potential to overcome the power, distance, and orientation limitations of inductive power-transfer systems, such as Qi technology. Comparing ...

This article is part of the Ideas for Design Series: Vol. 3, No. 6. Low-voltage microcontrollers generally have been powered from a regulated supply, such as 1.8 to 3.6 V, and have very low current ...