
Ground Hatch
Tx Electrode
Ground Hatch
Ground Hatch
PCB
Dielectric
Overlay
Cs
Cs
via
Routing
I/O pin
Rx Electrode
Cm
via
via
Routing
I/O pin
ΔCm
Ground
Hatch
Tx
Rx
Mutual-cap
electrode
Figure 15. Mutual-cap touch sensor structure and electric field
Sensor structure:
• Cm: Intrinsic mutual cap. 2 - 10 pF as usual.
• ΔCm: Touch reduced mutual cap. 0.3 - 2 pF as usual.
• Cs: Parasitic self-cap. 10 - 50 pF as usual.
• Sensitivity of sensor: ΔCm/Cm. 1 - 20 % as usual.
3.2 Clock generation in mutual-cap mode
One difference to the self-mode clock, the SSC must be enabled for mutual mode to generate switching clock, because the TSI
RX signal in the mutual mode depends on the TSI_SSC0[CHARGE_NUM]. In the mutual mode, changing the SSC charge time
changes the RX signal coupled from TX channel and affects the final scan result.
Figure 16. Clock generation in mutual-cap mode, spread spectrum clocking
SSC is enabled, the mutual mode shares the clock generation of the self-cap mode. For detailed configurations, see
clock generation, spread spectrum clocking
is used to calculate the Switching Clock when SSC is enabled.
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