BYU IC Innovation Seminar with Cirque

Salt Lake City, UT

Engineers from Cirque’s IC design and R&D teams will be speaking at Brigham Young University this March. The subject will be driving innovation with multi-disciplinary engineering teams. No preregistration is required. For questions, contact Brent Quist at bquist@cirque.com.

Event Details:

  • Date: Thursday, March 29 2018
  • Time: 11:00am to 12:00pm
  • Location: Clyde Building, Room CB406
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Discussion Abstract:  

Cirque IC design and research engineers present a view of innovation and development principles in a small, technically diverse company competing in a marketplace dominated by large corporations.

Cirque Corporation invented capacitive touch pads in the early 1990’s. Since then, there have been many incremental developments mixed with some significant changes. Touch pads today have many more features including the ability to track multiple fingers and gestures. These require a complex system that involves a variety of engineering disciplines.

The peculiar market position of Cirque creates a unique development environment in which innovation is more important than professional position or engineering discipline.  It is a vertical technical development environment, somewhat akin to a microcosm of Apple or Samsung.

IC Designers at Cirque Corporation utilize flexibility to innovate with input from strategic marketing, firmware, software, and Cirque’s parent company, Alps Electric Co., Ltd.  Innovation is common and encouraged throughout the whole development process from every engineering discipline: silicon-firmware-PCB-module-software-test-production.

In a market dominated by ever-more-global large corporations, it is uncommon to find a small company that develops IC’s, PCB’s, in-house firmware / software, and modules.  Cirque is one of those companies. 

Cirque's Innovative Capacitive Touch Solutions Are Now Available from Mouser

SALT LAKE CITY – Cirque, a world leader in capacitive touch input solutions, is announcing a global distribution agreement with Mouser Electronics, Inc. Select GlidePoint® trackpads, development kits and other solutions will now be available as part of Mouser’s extensive product portfolio.

Cirque solutions available from Mouser at launch will include high resolution round trackpads such as the TM040040 and the TM035035. These are ideal for applications like game/virtual reality controllers, headphones, remote controls and industrial controls. Based on proven GlidePoint technology, these trackpads have a successful track record in millions of devices sold around the globe.

Flexible GlidePoint development kits based on Ardunio® and open source reference code makes it fast and easy to incorporate GlidePoint trackpads into customer designs. Additionally, multiple top surface overlays are available to meet almost any industrial design requirements.  More information on circle trackpads can also be found on the Cirque website and YouTube Channel.

These products can be combined with other products from Mouser’s extensive selection of semiconductors and electronic components. “By joining the Mouser manufacturer line card, we are giving customers a one-stop shop for almost anything they need to design and build their products,” says Nate Coy, Global Sales Manager for Cirque Corporation. “We are very pleased to be part of such a robust distribution network and look forward to expanding our product offering with Mouser in the future.”

About Mouser Electronics

Mouser Electronics, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is an award-winning, authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor focused on rapid New Product Introductions from its manufacturing partners for electronic design engineers and buyers. The global distributor’s website, Mouser.com, is available in multiple languages and currencies and features more than 5 million products from over 700 manufacturers. Mouser offers 22 support locations around the world to provide best-in-class customer service and ships globally to over 600,000 customers in 170 countries from its 750,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility south of Dallas, Texas. For more information, visit www.mouser.com.

About Cirque Corporation

Cirque Corporation is the original developer of capacitive sensing technology and continues to function as a market leader in a variety of markets such as virtual reality, notebook computers, industrial, medical and consumer electronics. To learn more about Cirque's wide range of capacitive touch solutions, visit http://www.cirque.com.