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way to go Altera!

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:47:04 -0700 (PDT), Antti <...@googlemail.com

A while ago i did some research related to capacitive touch sensing,
and was really surprised to see that this function is offered by
Altera
as ready made solution.

today i was looking at ambient light measurement solutions.
and on the first google search page i found this

http://www.altera.com/literature/wp/wp-01076-led-driver-reduces-power-adjusting -intensity-ambient-light.pdf

cool.

really... no need to think, just look at stuff altera has prepared for
its customers.
hm.. maybe i should make some cool stuff with Altera ICs?

and.. OI I have been so stupid.. with my two last FPGA designs, me
idiot --
i did connect the on board LED one side to the GND!! it could have
been
possible i did even think about it, hm maybe i did, but did not
implement it. Well the
routing was complicated so connecting to gnd was easier

never again, when adding a LED to the FPGA board will always connect
it between
2 IO's then the same LED can be used as input or output device :)

using a LED as sensor when polarity can not be changed doesnt work at
all,
or well, i tried once the pin oscillator without changing polarity and
got no
light sensing (or almost none)

Antti



On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:09:36 +0200, whygee <...@yg.yg

hmmm cool, it gives me new ideas :-)

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On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:32:11 -0700 (PDT), "Ant...@googlemail.com" <...@googlemail.com

On Apr 27, 3:09 am, whygee <...@yg.yg
didi or altera?

I have tried both methods with FPGA, but not used in products yet

Antti

Anonymous Wrote:

and was really surprised to see that this function is offered by
Altera as ready made solution.

Hi Antti -
Altera recently released a webcast on capacitive touch sensing that
may be useful for your project:
http://www.altera.com/education/webcasts/all/wc-2009-max-ii-z-multi-touch-scree n.html
It talks about upgrading resistive touch screens to multi-touch
screens, using MAX IIZ CPLDs and IP functions.
Kati

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