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Microchip Technology has unveiled the maXTouch Knob on Display (KoD) controller as the first automotive-grade touchscreen controller family to natively support the detection and reporting of capacitive rotary encoders, as well as mechanical switches on top of a touch panel.

Vehicle electrification is increasing – and correspondingly the extent of touch panel usage for the operation of automotive cockpit applications. Screen sizes have grown excessively – either as pillar to pillar architecture or as seamlessly designed massive center console displays. That, however, means that displays are getting ever larger – and thus more complicated to…

Microchip has introduced a touch controller family for 'knob-on-display' (KoD) human-machine interfaces. These interfaces add a physical 'clicky' knob to t