Melody Touch Library Release Notes

Last modified by Microchip on 2023/11/09 08:55

Release 3.5.0 – August 2023

Added Touch Configurator support for dsPIC33CK device families.
Added future support for PIC18FxxQ20 devices.
Added touch ADC support for PIC16F1(71/81)xxx devices.
Added fix for PIC18FxxQ71 device's pins not getting populated in the pins grid view for touch.
Added fix for Compensation Capacitance (CC) value for self-capacitance technology not being updated properly for ATtiny devices.
Added fix for input buffer being disabled for PTC Pins.
Bug fixes and UI improvements.

Touch Configurator support for ATtiny.
Added one-touch and two-touch Surface for Self-cap (Mutual-cap will be supported in the next release).
Added Gesture Support.
Scan Rate control feature is added for PIC^® devices.
Improved the Driven Shield feature for users to enable/disable either Driven Shield (or) Driven Shield+ or both for better control.

Added notification icon within touch configurator to highlight touch-related hints, warnings and messages.

Added fix for multiple sensors not being selected.
Added fix for Touch files generation failure when driven shield is enabled.
Added fix for PIC16F180xx devices not getting loaded.
Added fix for same pins getting generated multiple times in the signal matrix.
Updated Touch library to support the latest Universal Asynchronous Receiver and Transmitter (UART) libraries.
Added fix for AVR^® devices not getting loaded.

Q43 family - (PIC18F25/26/27/45/46/47/55/56/57Q43)
Q40 family - (PIC18F04/05/06/14/15/16Q40)
Q41 family - (PIC18F04/05/06/14/15/16Q41)
Q10 family - (PIC18F24/25/26/27/45/46/47Q10)
PIC16LF188xx family - (PIC16(L)F18854/55/56/57/75/76/77)
PIC16F180xx family – (PIC16F18015/25/26/44/45/46/54/55/56/74/75/76)

Added button, slider, wheel sensor support for newly supported devices (Check above for supported devices).
Added support for two-way data streamer protocol through UART communication for both supported AVR and PIC devices (Note: Update to the latest MPLAB^® Touch plugin v1.0.1).
Added example .c and .h files during generation of Touch files.