QE for Capacitive Touch: Development Assistance Tool for Capacitive Touch Sensors

You can select between two judgment modes—Value Majority Mode and Judgment Majority Mode—using QE for Capacitive Touch with a microcontroller equipped with CTSU2.

Chapter's Title

00:00 Opening
00:13 Overview of two judgement modes
00:52 How to select judgement mode
01:11 Monitoring by each mode

With QE for Capacitive Touch and a microcontroller featuring CTSU2S, you can choose between two touch detection methods: software judgment and auto judgment by hardware. The auto judgment by hardware option also consumes less power than the software-based approach.

Chapter's Title

00:00 Opening
00:13 Overview of two judgement modes
00:54 How to select auto judgement by Hardware
 

In this video, we will show you how to use the Monitoring Log feature of QE for Capacitive Touch to reproduce monitoring and review detailed monitoring data.
QE for Capacitive Touch: https://www.renesas.com/software-tool/qe-capacitive-touch-development-assistance-tool-capacitive-touch-sensors

This video explains the development process for the touch sensor function in the RA family microcontrollers using the QE for Capacitive Touch. You can easily adjust the sensitivity of the created touch sensor electrodes to the optimum state by referring to the 3 tutorial videos.

This section explains the software settings required for touch sensor detection as the first step. You can configure each setting by performing a simple operation using the GUI.

• Capacitive Touch Sensor Solutions
• QE for Capacitive Touch: Development Assistance Tool for Capacitive Touch Sensors
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Step 1 Configuration for RA [this video]
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Step 2 Tuning for RA
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Step 3 Monitoring for RA

This video explains the development process for the touch sensor function in the RA family microcontrollers using the QE for Capacitive Touch. You can easily adjust the sensitivity of the created touch sensor electrodes to the optimum state by referring to the 3 tutorial videos.

This section explains the procedure for adjusting the sensitivity of the touch sensor detection following the Step 1 Configuration section. You can easily adjust the sensitivity by following the guide.

• Capacitive Touch Sensor Solutions
• QE for Capacitive Touch: Development Assistance Tool for Capacitive Touch Sensors
• Getting Started with QE for Capacitive Touch for RA
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Step 1 Configuration for RA
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Step 2 Tuning for RA [this video]
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Step 3 Monitoring for RA

This video explains the development process for the touch sensor function in the RA family microcontrollers using the QE for Capacitive Touch. You can easily adjust the sensitivity of the created touch sensor electrodes to the optimum state by referring to the 3 tutorial videos.

This section explains the procedure for checking and fine-tuning touch sensor sensitivity following the Step 2 Tuning section. You can easily confirm the touch sensor state in real-time on the GUI.

• Capacitive Touch Sensor Solutions
• QE for Capacitive Touch: Development Assistance Tool for Capacitive Touch Sensors
• Getting Started with QE for Capacitive Touch for RA
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Step 1 Configuration for RA
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Step 2 Tuning for RA
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Step 3 Monitoring for RA [this video]

QE for Capacitive Touch from Renesas enables the development of touch sensors by simply following a guide on a GUI, thus contributing to shortening the development period for touch sensor functions that take advantage of the performance of Capacitive Sensing Unit (CTSU2).

• Capacitive Touch Sensor Solutions
• QE for Capacitive Touch: Development Assistance Tool for Capacitive Touch Sensors
• Getting Started with QE for Capacitive Touch for RL78 (this video)
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Settings for RL78
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Tuning for RL78
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Serial Monitoring for RL78

This video explains the software settings required for touch sensor detection.

• Capacitive Touch Sensor Solutions
• QE for Capacitive Touch: Development Assistance Tool for Capacitive Touch Sensors
• Getting Started with QE for Capacitive Touch for RL78
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Settings for RL78 (this video)
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Tuning for RL78
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Serial Monitoring for RL78

This video explains the procedure for very simple sensitivity tuning.

• Capacitive Touch Sensor Solutions
• QE for Capacitive Touch: Development Assistance Tool for Capacitive Touch Sensors
• Getting Started with QE for Capacitive Touch for RL78
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Settings for RL78
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Tuning for RL78 (this video)
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Serial Monitoring for RL78

This video explains the procedure for sensitivity monitoring and adjustment.

• Capacitive Touch Sensor Solutions
• QE for Capacitive Touch: Development Assistance Tool for Capacitive Touch Sensors
• Getting Started with QE for Capacitive Touch for RL78
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Settings for RL78
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Tuning for RL78
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Serial Monitoring for RL78 (this video)

The QE for Capacitive Touch tool simplifies the touch user interface's initial settings and the sensitivity tuning, thus shortening developing time.

This video explains the software settings required for touch sensor detection.

This video explains the procedure for very simple sensitivity tuning.

This video explains the procedure for sensitivity monitoring and adjustment.

In this video, we will show you how to develop a 3D gesture AI solution using QE for Capacitive Touch. You can easily develop a 3D gesture recognition function by just following the workflow.

• QE for Capacitive Touch
• e-AI × 3D Gesture Recognition

QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: How to create the gesture data

In this video, we will show you how to create the gesture data for developing 3D gesture AI solutions using QE for Capacitive Touch.

QE for Capacitive Touch: https://www.renesas.com/qe-capacitive-touch
e-AI × 3D Gesture Recognition: https://www.renesas.com/qe-eai-gesture

QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: How to monitor gesture AI

In this video, we will show you how to monitor the created gesture AI for developing 3D gesture AI solutions using QE for Capacitive Touch.

QE for Capacitive Touch: https://www.renesas.com/qe-capacitive-touch
e-AI × 3D Gesture Recognition: https://www.renesas.com/qe-eai-gesture

Tutorial: How to tune via serial communication using the standalone application of QE.

In this video, we will show you how to tune via serial communication using the standalone application.
By using the standalone application, you can develop applications that involve capacitive touch sensors, even in an integrated development environment other than e2 studio such as CS+.

e2 studio: https://www.renesas.com/software-tool/e-studio
QE for Capacitive Touch: https://www.renesas.com/qe-capacitive-touch

Tutorial: How to migrate the touch modules from version 1.1 to version 2.0 using the compatible APIs with QE tool.

In this video, we will show you how to migrate the touch modules using the compatible APIs with QE tool.
In the new version of the modules, an internal design and all APIs have been completely reviewed to improve accuracy and performance.

QE for Capacitive Touch: https://www.renesas.com/qe-capacitive-touch

Feature Introduction: "measuring standard deviation" feature.

QE for Capacitive Touch has many useful features. The "measuring standard deviation" feature is one of the features. You can confirm the value of SNR for a button by measuring standard deviation.

• e² studio
• QE for Capacitive Touch

Tips on QE for Capacitive Touch: "Can't find a source file" warning during tuning.

This message does not necessarily indicate a problem. If the message appears during the tuning operation, ignore it, and then dismiss it once tuning has completed.

• e² studio
• QE for Capacitive Touch
• FAQ 3000440 (English)
• FAQ 3000440 (Japanese)

This video demonstrates how to use QE for Capacitive Touch with FSP in IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm for the RA2L1 capacitive Touch Evaluation system.

0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:22 Generate files using QE for Capacitive Touch in e² studio
0:01:12 Create the Capacitive Touch project for IAR EWARM
0:02:15 Add Touch drivers to the project in IAR EWARM
0:03:12 Copy QE files to IAR EWARM and build the project

Related resources:

• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Step 1 Configuration
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Step 2 Tuning for RA
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Step 3 Monitoring for RA
• QE for Capacitive Touch: Development Assistance Tool for Capacitive Touch Sensors

This video demonstrates how to use QE for Capacitive Touch with FSP in Keil^® MDK for the RA2L1 capacitive Touch Evaluation system. 

0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:22 Generate files using QE for Capacitive Touch in e² studio
0:01:12 Create the Capacitive Touch project for Keil^® MDK
0:02:19 Add Touch drivers to the project in Keil^® MDK
0:03:20 Copy QE files to Keil^® MDK and build the project

Related resources:

• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Step 1 Configuration
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Step 2 Tuning for RA
• QE for Capacitive Touch Tutorial: Step 3 Monitoring for RA
• QE for Capacitive Touch: Development Assistance Tool for Capacitive Touch Sensors

The workflow diagram has been updated in QE for Capacitive Touch V3.2.0. In this video, we will introduce the new workflow diagram.

This video shows how to tune a touch sensor via serial communication using the plug-in of QE for Capacitive Touch.