On Wednesday 06 October 2010 17:33:33 Paul Schwarz wrote:

> Hi Group,
>
> I pose the following dilemma and look forward to enthusiastic
> discussions.

could you post plain old PDFs of the schematic. those flash-pdfs are a 
thorough pita.

>
> As mentioned in a previous e-mail to you'll, we have developed an
> embedded PC with a touch screen. This device runs on a RMI, Alchemy
> processor (AU1250) and its touch screen is connected to this CPU
> via an ADS7843 chip and through the SPI bus. So far so good and
> pretty standard. The system originally ran on WinCE5.0 (Booooo!)
> and we are currently porting it to Linux.
>
> Now the problem that we are facing is that after the first 3-4
> touch events, no more touch events are recorded after that and the
> sensitivity of the clicks is very weak. 

The input of the A-D converter is a high impedance source. In a noisy 
environment, the parasitic Cs charge up. This is usually the cause of 
gradual loss of sensitivity. 

> Lastly, when the screen is 
> touched while a video is playing the video and audio pause for the
> duration of the touch.

this could definetly be  the driver waiting for "release" event.



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