Escatec has been appointed as one of the two Atmel design partners for touch sensing technology in Europe.
The Swiss manufacturing services company runs low volume production at its facilities in Switzerland and offers high volume manufacture in Asia.
“Designing touchscreens and the control electronics is a complex task and is challenging to companies unless they do it regularly,” explained Daniel Pfeifer, R&D manager, at Escatec’s facility in Switzerland.
Atmel is also in the process of building an ecosystem around its AVR microcontrollers which includes a set of tools which will be compatible with both 8- and 32-bit AVR microcontrollers.
The design ecosystem also includes source code for 400 design applications developed by Atmel with some third party support.
The intention is to expand the number and range of designs through third party relationships.
Atmel supplies chips for the touchscreens which are used with components and software from other suppliers in a complete display sub-system.
“Rather than having customers re-invent the wheel every time, Atmel has appointed a small number of design partners who are highly experienced at integrating all the elements together to create complete touch screen solutions for customers,” said Pfeifer.
“We form a close working partnership with customers at all stages to ensure that every phase runs smoothly,” added Martin Kingdon, Escatec’s business development director.
“This Design Partnership with Atmel is just one of the many services that we offer,” said Kingdom.