ModusToolbox™ CAPSENSE™ Tuner user guide

Scope and purpose

The CAPSENSE™ Tuner is used to tune CAPSENSE™ applications.

This document helps application developers understand how to use the CAPSENSE™ Tuner as part of creating a ModusToolbox™ application.

Convention	Explanation
Bold	Emphasizes heading levels, column headings, menus and sub-menus
Italics	Denotes file names and paths.
`Monospace`	Denotes APIs, functions, interrupt handlers, events, data types, error handlers, file/folder names, directories, command line inputs, code snippets
File > New	Indicates that a cascading sub-menu opens when you select a menu item

The following define the abbreviations and terms used in this document:

Application – One or more projects related to each other.
CAPSENSE – capacitive sensing
Configurator – A GUI-based tool used to configure a resource.
CSD – self-capacitance sensing method
CSX – CAPSENSE™ Transmit/Receive (CAPSENSE™ with two electrodes: Tx and Rx), mutual capacitance sensing method
ISX – inductive sensing method
IDE – integrated development environment
CSD HW – CAPSENSE™ Sigma Delta – 4 ^th generation hardware (HW) block
MSC HW – multi-sensing converter – 5 ^th generation hardware (HW) block
MSCLP HW – multi-sensing converter low power – 5 ^th generation LP hardware (HW) block
Peripheral – Any external analog or digital device that provides an input and output for the computer.
PSOC™ – programmable system-on-chip
RTT – real-time transfer
SMARTSENSE – Auto-tuning process used for proper functionality and optimized performance of the CAPSENSE™ system.
SNR – signal-to-noise ratio
Widget – A CAPSENSE™ functional unit consisting of one sensor or a group of similar sensors, implementing a specific higher-level functionality such as Button, Proximity Sensor, Linear Slider, Radial Slider, Matrix Buttons, Touchpad, Low Power, and Liquid Level widget.

Refer to the following documents for more information as needed: