Increasingly, engineers are designing touch screens into their portable devices, Figure 1. Although battery technologies are becoming more efficient, it is critical to keep the power dissipation of ...

Freescale Semiconductor announced the industry’s first solution that combines gesture recognition on resistive screen technology and capacitive touch sensing in a single integrated circuit. This ...

Adjusting the volume dial on a sound system, sensing your finger position on a touch screen, and knowing when someone’s in the car are just a few examples of where you encounter variable resistors in ...