Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has Cypress CapSense controller

BANGALORE, INDIA: Cypress Semiconductor Corp., a market leader in capacitive touch-sensing, today announced a teardown by semiconductor-analysis firm Chipworks has found a Cypress CapSense controller drives the "menu" and "back" buttons in the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smartphone.

The Chipworks Galaxy Note 3 teardown mentions the phone's buttons support usage with gloved-fingers, and identifies the new CY8C20055 controller as "likely adding in the glove-friendly feature.

"Chipworks has seen other Cypress Semiconductor CapSense controllers in the Galaxy S family, and we're now several generations along in both," the blog post on the teardown adds.

"We are always pleased when our innovative CapSense features-such as gloved-finger sensing, proximity sensing, water tolerance, and passive stylus support-enable differentiated end-products for our customers," said Dirk Franklin, business unit director for Cypress's CapSense solutions. "Our design wins with industry-leading companies have gone a long way toward establishing Cypress as the capacitive touch-sensing market leader."