Appendix E: The Maxtouch Debug App

The Microchip ATMXT1066TD

Trackpad tracking is quite a tricky thing to do. In the Ploopy Trackpad, the chip that we use to perform the tracking calculations is the Microchip ATMXT1066TD (which we'll call the MXT1066 for the rest of this document).

The MXT1066 is a highly-advanced chip with many, many, maaany features. It has so many features that it's hard to keep track of them all.

To alter them quickly and see the effects that the alterations have, George Norton's Maxtouch Debug utility is extremely useful. It looks something like this:

Debug firmware

In order to use the debug app, you'll need to rebuild the Pavonis firmware, using the debug keymap instead of the default keymap.

If necessary, follow the guide in Appendix D to put new firmware onto the Trackpad.

How to use it, though?

This, unfortunately, is the tricky part. Microchip places the documentation for the MXT1066 under NDA, which means that we are unable to share our copy with you. However, if you have a Microchip account, you can download the documentation for yourself quickly and easily.

The MXT1066 documentation has a full explanation of all of the features that are broken out in the debug utility.

Alternatively, you could just try changing things and see what happens...!