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MSPCAPTDSNCTR

CapTIvate™ Design Center GUI for MSP430™ Capacitive Sensing MCUs

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Overview

The CapTIvate™ Design Center GUI is a one-stop resource for everything related to CapTIvate capacitive sensing technology integrated on TI MSP430™ microcontrollers. It includes tools, documentation and software examples that can simplify and accelerate capacitive touch designs. Start by dragging and dropping capacitive sensing elements (i.e. buttons, sliders, wheels and proximity sensors) to your GUI workspace and use the GUI to configure and tune your design in real time. When tuning is complete, the GUI will generate the source code needed for the selected capacitive touch elements.

Features
  • Set up a design in less than five minutes
  • Create, configure and tune capacitive sensors without writing a single line of code
  • Automatically generate source code projects for code composer studio™ and IAR Embedded Workbench® IDEs
  • Support for slider, wheel, buttons and proximity sensors
  • Real time target communication through a HID communication bridge enabling:
    • A detailed view of sensor data
    • Configuration and tuning of sensor performance
  • Works with:
    • Windows 7+
    • Apple OS X 10.10.1+ 
    • Linux OS 
    • Java JRE 1.7 to 1.9 must be installed on the host system. Using Java JRE higher than 1.9 might cause incompatibility issues
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Get started

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  1. Download and install the CapTIvate Design Center
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  2. Select and buy the best evaluation hardware for your application
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  3. Complete the getting started workshop
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MSPCAPTDSNCTR — MSP CapTIvate™ design Center GUI

Supported products & hardware

Supported products & hardware

Products
MSP430 microcontrollers
MSP430FR2512 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 4 touch IO (4 sensors), 8KB FRAM, 2KB SRAM, 15 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2522 — Capacitive touch MCU with 8 touch IO (16 sensors), 8KB FRAM, 2KB SRAM, 15 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2532 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 8 touch IO (8 sensors), 8KB FRAM, 1KB SRAM, 15 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2533 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 16 touch IO (24 sensors), 16KB FRAM, 2KB SRAM, 19 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2632 — Capacitive touch MCU with 8 touch IO (16 sensors), 8KB FRAM, 2KB SRAM, 15 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2633 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 16 touch IO (64 sensors), 16KB FRAM, 4KB SRAM, 19 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2672 — Capacitive-touch MCU with 16 I/O (16 sensors), 8-KB FRAM, 2-KB SRAM, 27 I/O and 12-bit ADC MSP430FR2673 — Capacitive-touch MCU with 16 I/O (64 sensors), 16-KB FRAM, 4-KB SRAM, 27 I/O and 12-bit ADC MSP430FR2675 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 16 touch IO (64 sensors), 32KB FRAM, 6KB SRAM, 43 IO, 12-bit ADC, 105C MSP430FR2676 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 16 touch IO (64 sensors), 64KB FRAM, 8KB SRAM, 43 IO, 12-bit ADC, 105C
Hardware development
Evaluation board
CAPTIVATE-BSWP — Capacitive touch self capacitance button, slider, wheel, and proximity sensor demonstration board CAPTIVATE-FR2633 — Capacitive touch MSP430FR2633 MCU board CAPTIVATE-FR2676 — Capacitive touch MSP430FR2676 MCU board CAPTIVATE-METAL — Touch on metal capacitive sensing add-on board for the CapTIvate™ development kit
Development kit
CAPTIVATE-PHONE — Capacitive touch mutual capacitance sensor demonstration board with haptic feedback
Hardware programming tool
CAPTIVATE-PGMR — MSP430 CapTIvate MCU programmer
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Version: 1.83.00.08
Release date: 16 May 2020
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Products
MSP430 microcontrollers
MSP430FR2512 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 4 touch IO (4 sensors), 8KB FRAM, 2KB SRAM, 15 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2522 — Capacitive touch MCU with 8 touch IO (16 sensors), 8KB FRAM, 2KB SRAM, 15 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2532 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 8 touch IO (8 sensors), 8KB FRAM, 1KB SRAM, 15 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2533 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 16 touch IO (24 sensors), 16KB FRAM, 2KB SRAM, 19 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2632 — Capacitive touch MCU with 8 touch IO (16 sensors), 8KB FRAM, 2KB SRAM, 15 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2633 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 16 touch IO (64 sensors), 16KB FRAM, 4KB SRAM, 19 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2672 — Capacitive-touch MCU with 16 I/O (16 sensors), 8-KB FRAM, 2-KB SRAM, 27 I/O and 12-bit ADC MSP430FR2673 — Capacitive-touch MCU with 16 I/O (64 sensors), 16-KB FRAM, 4-KB SRAM, 27 I/O and 12-bit ADC MSP430FR2675 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 16 touch IO (64 sensors), 32KB FRAM, 6KB SRAM, 43 IO, 12-bit ADC, 105C MSP430FR2676 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 16 touch IO (64 sensors), 64KB FRAM, 8KB SRAM, 43 IO, 12-bit ADC, 105C
Hardware development
Evaluation board
CAPTIVATE-BSWP — Capacitive touch self capacitance button, slider, wheel, and proximity sensor demonstration board CAPTIVATE-FR2633 — Capacitive touch MSP430FR2633 MCU board CAPTIVATE-FR2676 — Capacitive touch MSP430FR2676 MCU board CAPTIVATE-METAL — Touch on metal capacitive sensing add-on board for the CapTIvate™ development kit
Development kit
CAPTIVATE-PHONE — Capacitive touch mutual capacitance sensor demonstration board with haptic feedback
Hardware programming tool
CAPTIVATE-PGMR — MSP430 CapTIvate MCU programmer

Release Information

CapTIvate™ brings together an exciting new capacitive touch measurement technology, a powerful CapTIvate™ Design Center GUI, a versatile hardware development platform and a full feature capacitive touch software library, creating the next step in evolution for capacitive touch sensor design. The CapTIvate™ Design Center is a rapid development tool that accelerates capacitive touch designs for CapTIvate™ Technology enabled MSP430 devices. By helping guide the product developer through the capacitive touch development process, the CapTIvate™ Design Center can simplify and accelerate any touch design through the use of innovative user graphical interfaces, wizards and controls.

What's new

  • CapTIvate Technology Guide
    • Add the Temperature Drift information in Design Guide section
    • Update the Devices section with key sensing parameters and comparison between two generations
  • Software Library
    • Add the support for new devices MSP430FR2672 and MSP430FR2673
  • Design Center
    • Please re-create the projects created from the previous version to get all the new features.
    • Added support for TrackPad sensors
    • Minor bug fixes

Supported products & hardware

MSP430 microcontrollers
MSP430FR2512 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 4 touch IO (4 sensors), 8KB FRAM, 2KB SRAM, 15 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2522 — Capacitive touch MCU with 8 touch IO (16 sensors), 8KB FRAM, 2KB SRAM, 15 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2532 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 8 touch IO (8 sensors), 8KB FRAM, 1KB SRAM, 15 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2533 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 16 touch IO (24 sensors), 16KB FRAM, 2KB SRAM, 19 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2632 — Capacitive touch MCU with 8 touch IO (16 sensors), 8KB FRAM, 2KB SRAM, 15 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2633 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 16 touch IO (64 sensors), 16KB FRAM, 4KB SRAM, 19 IO, 10-bit ADC MSP430FR2675 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 16 touch IO (64 sensors), 32KB FRAM, 6KB SRAM, 43 IO, 12-bit ADC, 105C MSP430FR2676 — Capacitive Touch MCU with 16 touch IO (64 sensors), 64KB FRAM, 8KB SRAM, 43 IO, 12-bit ADC, 105C
Evaluation board
CAPTIVATE-METAL — Touch on metal capacitive sensing add-on board for the CapTIvate™ development kit
Development kit
BOOSTXL-CAPKEYPAD — MSP430 CapTIvate™ MCU touch keypad BoosterPack plug-in module
Hardware programming tool
CAPTIVATE-PGMR — MSP430 CapTIvate MCU programmer

Technical documentation

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* White paper Enabling Noise Tolerant Capacitive Touch HMIs With MSP CapTIvate™ Technology (Rev. B) 12 Nov 2019
* White paper MSP430™ FRAM Microcontrollers With CapTIvate™ Touch Technology 14 Oct 2015
Technical article Capacitive touch evaluation is quick & easy with the EVM430-CAPMINI demo board PDF | HTML 20 Mar 2019
User guide CapTIvate Technology Guide 11 Nov 2015

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