Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, CA) announced that its TrueTouch Gen5 touchscreen controller family for large-screen superphones, smartphones, tablets, and e-readers now delivers multiple new advanced features, including the world’s best gloved-finger tracking on capacitive touchscreens. The TMA568 controller has also added “hover” support, which enables touchscreens to anticipate the touch of a finger and enlarge content, such as points on a map, to make it easier to find and select objects. The new features add to the TMA568 controller’s industry-leading noise-immunity, waterproofing and palm rejection technology. Other features include:

• Best-in-class accuracy and linearity for multiple fingers of different sizes and gloves of various materials and thicknesses.
• Automatic switching between glove and finger tracking without requiring the user to change settings.
• Hover detection which changes the fundamental navigation functions on mobile devices by emulating the “mouseover” feature of personal computers.
• Improved passive stylus support, accurately capturing 1-mm stylus input for handwriting and signatures.

For more information on the TMA568 controller, visit www.cypress.com.