The Synaptics Tools Suite | Synaptics

The Synaptics Tools Suite

Synaptics provides a comprehensive, start-to-finish suite of tools to help you simplify your process and deliver innovative products faster. The Synaptics Tools Suite delivers:

  • Faster Time-to-Market
    The tools suite simplifies the process of touch design into an intuitive user experience that takes you from beginning to end while mitigating potentially irrevocable problems that may happen down the line.
  • Greater Flexibility
    The tools suite also gives system integrators flexibility in what the touchscreen can do to help make designs unique, allowing for timely customization of Synaptics offerings to meet customer needs.
  • Reduced Total Cost of Ownership
    Get a holistic view of all aspects of touchscreen design, as well as potential problems down the line, for less time spent debugging issues, reduced sample builds, and reduced cost of taking a touch-enabled product out to market.
  • Built-In Production Test Capability
    Testing for production is included in the tool for reducing yield loss and test escapes.
  • SignalClarity™
    • Our patented SignalClarity technology provides extremely robust performance against electrical noise, moisture, and temperature variations.

The Synaptics Tool Suite allows customers and partners to generate and simulate sensor patterns, bring-up, tune, configure, explore, and test ClearPad sensors to ensure optimal design—all while staying tightly integrated with your industrial design and performance specifications.

SafeSense

SafeSense is a sensor pattern generation and simulation tool. It is backed by over one billion production units-worth of proven systems design experience. SafeSense comprehends all of the factors that can affect touchscreen performance, such as the sensor pattern, substrate material, size, structure, stack-up, and front lens thickness. By simulating your design first, the time and expense of trial-and-error are eliminated.

SafeSense Features and Benefits

  • Define your Inputs
    Decide the type of design you need that will make your device stand out.
  • Fine-Tune your Outputs
    The tool will help you decide what works, what does not, and provides recommendations to help you understand how to get to the design that you want—all before building a single sample.
  • Real-Time Exploration
    Change parameters on the fly. Simple metrics allow for trade-off decisions based on your specifications.

DesignStudio™

Synaptics Design Studio offers the most advanced and comprehensive touch system in the market. It accelerates your ClearPad development cycle by empowering you to evaluate the performance, optimize your touch experience, and efficiently implement your custom ClearPad sensor solution.

DesignStudio Features and Benefits

  • High Performance
    – The best-in-class performance in presence of noise enables mobile OEMs to support inexpensive chargers, work with multiple display types, and enable system designers to optimize the touch experience to deliver products to market quickly.
  • Easy to Integrate
    Enjoy simplified design-in and accelerated time-to-market with Synaptics engineering support, development and test tool suite, and flexible delivery models.
  • Flexible Implementations
    Design Studio works seamlessly with multiple display configurations including Discrete Sensors, On-Glass-Sensor, On-Cell, and In-Cell stack-up solutions.
  • Production Test Support
    Synaptics offers full built-in test capabilities running natively from the ASIC, allowing customers to assess the state of their touch system in production as well as in-situ.
  • Highly Configurable
    By leveraging breakthroughs in the firmware and the design tool, Synaptics has now made it possible for each ASIC can be configured to work in any application. Performance attributes such as sensitivity and report rate can now be adjusted quickly and easily.
  • Tuning Wizards
    Design Studio simplifies the process of fine-tuning a touch device with easy-to-use tuning wizards powered by fundamentally sound system-level understanding.
  • True Wireless Support
    The industry’s first true bi-directional wireless debugging interface allows system integrators to utilize the full capabilities of Design Studio while communicating with their touch device in its true state.
  • Advanced Capabilities
    Intuitive diagnostic tools provide immediate feedback on potential design configurations.

TestStudio™

TestStudio is a stand-alone tool to address the needs of production testing. Available as a simple, independent software offering.