Sentelic to provide solid touch sensing solutions

After the launch of Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPod, touch sensing technologies are now becoming an all-pervasive technology. Touch sensing is now featured in many applications such as mobile phones, consumer electronics devices, and home appliances, to name a few. In response to the global trend, Sentelic Corp., a Taiwan-based IC design house founded in 2000 by Silicon Valley veterans, has developed a series of solutions for touch pad and touch screen applications. “I have already realized the importance of human-machine interface when I worked in the United States in 1999,” said Dr. J.C. Lin, Chairman of Sentelic, who has more than 18 years of analog IC and wireless communications design experience.

Currently, the company offers interface solutions for different applications, including keyboards, mice, touch pads, touch buttons and track balls used in desktop and notebook PCs. For handheld devices, there are solutions for touch screens, touch sticks, touch buttons and hand writing recognition. However, “do they solve the problems? Or what is the best solution in your design? ”asked Dr. Lin, noting that the criteria for an interface solution should be natural, simple, reliable and cheap.

Among the major products being shipped from the company right now are solutions targeted at the touch pads in notebook PCs. Meanwhile, apart from touch sensing solutions, Sentelic also supplies DC brushless fan motor controller and reset ICs. The company also has offices in San Jose, USA, and Shanghai, China.

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