Device and method for sensor electrode testing

    公开(公告)号:US11144162B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-12

    申请号:US17100768

    申请日:2020-11-20

    Abstract: A method for testing a sensor electrode is provided. The method includes acquiring a first resulting signal from a sensor electrode. The method further includes determining an in-phase response and a quadrature-phase response through a quadrature demodulation based on the first resulting signal. The method further includes detecting a defect of the sensor electrode based on the in-phase response and the quadrature-phase response.

    Device and method for capacitive sensing

    公开(公告)号:US11126303B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-21

    申请号:US17062529

    申请日:2020-10-02

    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises driver circuitry, an analog-digital (AD) converter, and processing circuitry. The driver circuitry is configured to supply a drive signal to a sensor array in a sensing frame comprising 2N bursts, N being an integer of two or more. The mixer circuitry is configured to modulate a plurality of carrier waves with a plurality of sensing signals corresponding to capacitances of a plurality of sensing electrodes of the sensor array, respectively, to output a plurality of mixer outputs. A number of the plurality of sensing electrodes is 2N−1 or 2N. The AD converter is configured to perform AD conversion on a sum signal of the plurality of mixer outputs. The processing circuitry is configured to detect an object based on the output of the AD converter.

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