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Object of Declaration: 3DTouchPad 2014 Microchip Technology Inc. DS40001763A-page 3...
• Development Systems Customer Change Notification Service • Customer Support • Document Revision History DOCUMENT LAYOUT This document describes the 3DTouchPad and is organized as follows: • Chapter 1. 3DTouchPad Overview • Chapter 2. Package Content and Installation • Chapter 3. Feature Description •...
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Curly brackets and pipe Choice of mutually exclusive errorlevel {0|1} character: { | } arguments; an OR selection Ellipses... Replaces repeated text var_name [, var_name...] Represents code supplied by void main (void) user { ... 2014 Microchip Technology Inc. DS40001763A-page 6...
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Interim software releases are available at the Microchip web site. RECOMMENDED READING This user’s guide describes how to use the 3DTouchPad. Other useful documents are listed below. The following Microchip documents are available and recommended as supplemental reference resources.
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MPLAB REAL ICE in-circuit emulator, MPLAB ICD 3 in-circuit debugger and MPLAB PM3 device programmers. Also included ® are non-production development programmers such as PICSTART Plus and PICkit 2 and 3. 2014 Microchip Technology Inc. DS40001763A-page 8...
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(FAE) for support. Local sales offices are also available to help customers. Technical support is available through the web site at: http://www.microchip.com/support. DOCUMENT REVISION HISTORY Revision A (August 2014) • Initial release of the document. 2014 Microchip Technology Inc. DS40001763A-page 9...
3D hand gestures. It enables a more efficient, more productive usage of the touch pad area. For example, the 3DTouchPad will allow the user to control the flow of pictures by a wave of the hand or to control the volume of the speakers with a casual rotation.
® Microsoft Windows (Windows 7 and Windows 8.x) as a Human Interface Device (HID). The 3DTouchPad is ready for use as soon as the right LED of the 3DTouchPad lights up. Please see Chapter 4. “Hardware” for more details on LED indication.
3DTouchPad USER’S GUIDE Chapter 3. Feature Description The default out-of-the-box feature set of the 3DTouchPad includes 2D positioning, 2D as well as 3D gestures, replacing keyboard and mouse inputs. TABLE 3-1: 2D FEATURE SET OVERVIEW Equivalent Category Action Description Keyboard...
2D, 3D and Debug mode. HARDWARE SETUP The 3DTouchPad PCB contains the 2D touch pad surrounded by the electrodes for 3D gesture recognition. The assembly is placed on the bottom of the PCB. Figure 4-1 and Figure 4-2 show the assembly as well as the electrode structures.
The 2D touch pad allows tracking of up to ten fingers simultaneously. Besides the 2D multi-finger tracking functionality, a variety of surface gestures are implemented. These surface gestures allow for example two-finger scrolling. A complete overview of the 2D gestures is given in Table 3-1. 2014 Microchip Technology Inc. DS40001763A-page 14...
FIGURE 4-4: LEDS SEEN FROM THE BACK Three LEDs are placed on the bottom of the 3DTouchPad to indicate the operating mode (see Figure 4-4). • LED 3 (indication for 3D mode): Free space gestures such as flicks or Airwheel will be detected.
3DTouchPad USER’S GUIDE Chapter 5. 3DTouchPad GUI INTRODUCTION The 3DTouchPad GUI is a central element of the development process using the 3DTouchPad. It can be downloaded for free from the 3DTouchPad site at www.microchip.com/3dtouchpad. The 3DTouchPad GUI provides two main sections: •...
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For more information on these gestures, please refer to the “MGC3130 Aurea Graphical User Interface User’s Guide” (DS40001681). Note: Only 3D gestures will be shown in the GUI. 2D surface gestures such as taps or swipes are not visualized. 2014 Microchip Technology Inc. DS40001763A-page 17...
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• Gesture Indication, which shows the latest recognized 3D free space gesture • MGC3130 Firmware Version • Operation Mode Indication, which lights up if the 3DTouchPad is in 2D mode; the indication is off if the pad is in 3D mode •...
SETUP TAB The firmware for both the MGC3130 and MTCH63104 devices can be updated by clicking Firmware Update. The 3DTouchPad GUI will then automatically update the latest firmware file for MGC3130 and MTCH63104. 2014 Microchip Technology Inc. DS40001763A-page 19...
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