User Manual

 2012-2017 Microchip Technology Inc. Advance Information DS40001667E-page 9
MGC3030/3130
1.1 GestIC Technology Benefits
• GestIC E-field sensors are not impacted by
ambient influences such as light or sound, which
have a negative impact to the majority of other 3D
technologies.
• GestIC technology allows gesture/position track-
ing processing on chip – no host processing
needed. Algorithms are included in the Colibri
gesture suite which runs on chip and is provided
my Microchip.
• The GestIC technology has a high immunity to
noise, provides high update rates and resolution,
low latency and is also not affected by clothing,
surface texture or reflectivity.
• A carrier frequency in the range of 44-115 kHz is
being used with the benefit of being outside the
regulated radio frequency range. In the same
manner, GestIC is not affected by radio
interference.
• Usage of thin low-cost materials as electrodes
allow low system cost at slim industrial designs.
• The further use of existing capacitive sensor
structures such as a touch panel’s ITO coating
allow additional cost savings and ease the
integration of the technology.
• Electrodes are invisible to the users’ eye since
they are implemented underneath the housing
surface or integrated into a touch panel’s ITO
structure.
• GestIC works centrically over the full sensing
space. Thus, it provides full surface coverage
without any detection blind spots.
• Only one GestIC transmitter electrode is used for
E-field generations. The benefit is an overall low
power consumption and low radiated EMC noise.
• Since GestIC is basically processing raw
electrode signals and computes them in real time
into pre-processed gestures and x, y, z positional
data, it provides a highly flexible user interface
technology for any kind of electronic devices.