How Does The CapSense 2 Click Board™ Work?
The CapSense 2 Click Board™ is based on the the CAP1114, a multi-channel capacitive touch sensor from Microchip. The CAP1114 takes human body capacitance as an input and directly provides real-time sensor information via a serial interface. It also comes with programmable sensitivity for touch buttons and slider switch applications.
The CAP1114 contains multiple power states, including several low-power operating states. It has four operational states: Fully Active, Sleep, Deep Sleep, and Inactive depending on the status of the SLEEP, DEACT, and DSLEEP register bits. When the device transitions between power states, previously detected touches (for deactivated channels) are cleared, and the status bits reset.
As mentioned earlier, this board contains a 7-segment capacitive sensing slider that can detect a slide in either the UP or DOWN direction, as well as two touch buttons. These pads are the only elements on the top side of the board, allowing the protective acrylic plexiglass layer placement. Each of these features has an LED indicator representing the activity in that field. If a touch event is detected on one of these onboard pads, the state of the corresponding LED will be changed, indicating an activated channel; more precisely, touch has been detected on that specific field.
The CapSense 2 Click Board™ communicates with MCU using the standard I2C 2-Wire interface to read data and configure settings. It also possesses an additional alert interrupt signal, routed on the INT pin of the mikroBUS™ socket labelled as ALT, indicating when a specific interrupt event occurs (touch detection), and Reset pin routed to the RST pin of the mikroBUS™ socket used to hold all internal blocks of the CAP1114 in a reset state.
The CapSense 2 Click Board™ can be operated only with a 3.3V logic voltage level. The board must perform appropriate logic voltage level conversion before using MCUs with different logic levels. However, the Click board™ comes equipped with a library containing functions and an example code that can be used, as a reference, for further development.
SPECIFICATIONS
| Type | Capacitive |
| Applications | The CapSense 2 Click Board™ can be used for reliable and accurate sensing for any application that uses capacitive touch sensing functions |
| On-board modules | CAP1114 - multi-channel capacitive touch sensor from Microchip |
| Key Features | Slider with acceleration and position detection, programmable sensitivity, low power consumption, automatic recalibration, I2C interface, two touch buttons, LED indicators, and more |
| Interface | I2C |
| Compatibility | mikroBUS |
| Click board size | L (57.15 x 25.4 mm) |
| Input Voltage | 3.3V |
PINOUT DIAGRAM
This table shows how the pinout of the CapSense 2 Click Board™ corresponds to the pinout on the mikroBUS™ socket (the latter shown in the two middle columns).
| Notes | Pin | Pin | Notes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NC | 1 | AN | PWM | 16 | NC | ||
| Reset | RST | 2 | RST | INT | 15 | ALT | Interrupt |
| NC | 3 | CS | RX | 14 | NC | ||
| NC | 4 | SCK | TX | 13 | NC | ||
| NC | 5 | MISO | SCL | 12 | SCL | I2C Clock | |
| NC | 6 | MOSI | SDA | 11 | SDA | I2C Data | |
| Power Supply | 3.3V | 7 | 3.3V | 5V | 10 | NC | |
| Ground | GND | 8 | GND | GND | 9 | GND | Ground |
ONBOARD SETTINGS AND INDICATORS
| Label | Name | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| LD1 | PWR | - | Power LED Indicator |
| LD2 | - | - | Touch Button 1 LED Indicator |
| LD3 | - | - | Touch Button 2 LED Indicator |
| LD4-LD5 | - | - | Touch Slider LED Indicators |
CAPSENSE 2 CLICK ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATIONS
| Description | Min | Typ | Max | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supply Voltage | - | 3.3 | - | V |
| Operating Temperature Range | 0 | +25 | +85 | °C |