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MGC3130 – SABREWING
SINGLE-ZONE EVALUATION
KIT USER’S GUIDE
Appendix D. Glossary
Term
Definition
AFE
Analog front end
Application Host
PC or embedded controller which controls the MGC3130
Aurea
MGC3130 PC control software with graphical user interface
Colibri Suite
Embedded DSP suite within the GestIC
®
Library
Deep Sleep
MGC3130 Power-saving mode
E-field
Electrical field
Frame Electrodes
Rectangular set of 4 electrodes for E-field sensing
GestIC
®
Technology
Microchip’s patented technology providing 3D free-space gesture recognition utilizing
the principles of electrical near-field sensing
GestIC
®
Library
Includes the implementation of MGC3130 features and is delivered as a binary file
preprogrammed on the MGC3130
Gesture Recognition
Microchip’s stochastic HMM classifier to automatically detect and classify hand
movement patterns
Gesture Set
A set of provided hand movement patterns
Hand Brick
Copper coated test block (7 cm x 4 cm x 4 cm)
HMM
Hidden Markov Model
MGC3130
Single Zone 3D Gesture Sensing Controller
Position Tracking
GestIC technology feature
Sabrewing
MGC3130 evaluation board
Self Wake-Up
MGC3130 Power-saving mode
Sensing Zone
The three dimensional area near the electrodes in which tracking/gesture recognition
can be performed
Signal Deviation
Term for the delta of the sensor signal on approach of the hand versus non-approach
Spacer Brick
Spacer between the sensor layer and hand brick
(styrofoam block 4 cm x 4 cm x h with h= 1 / 2 / 3 / 5 / 8 / 12 cm)
SPU
Signal Processing Unit
Approach Detection
GestIC technology feature: Power-Saving mode of the MGC3130 with approach
detection
