A 15-nW per Sensor Interference-Immune Readout IC for Capacitive Touch Sensors

This paper presents a readout IC that uses an asynchronous capacitance-to-digital-converter (CDC) to digitize the capacitance of a touch sensor. A power-efficient tracking algorithm ensures that the CDC consumes negligible power consumption in the absence of touch events. To facilitate its use in wake-on-touch applications, the CDC can be...

An Ultra-Low Power Capacitive Readout Circuit for Wake-on-Touch Applications

A High-Resolution Capacitance-to-Digital Converter based on Iterative Discharging

This work focuses on the improvement of a capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC) based on iterative discharging. Time-domain interpolation is applied on the CDC. With such technology, a high-resolution CDC can be achieved while its fully digital feature can be kept. The proposed CDC achieves a resolution of 2.8fF and a FoM of 1.32pJ/step at 5...