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Solution Toolkit
Development Assistance Tool for Capacitive Touch Sensors
QE for Capacitive Touch V3.2.0
Outline

QE for Capacitive Touch, a development assistance tool for capacitive touch sensors, has been updated
from V3.1.0 to V3.2.0.

1. Description
The following sections cover the main enhancements. For details and how to install the product, see therelease note at the link below.
QE for Capacitive Touch V3.2.0 Release Notehttps://www.renesas.com/document/rln/qe-capacitive-touch-v320-release-note

1.1 Addition of Supported Devices
The following group is now supported.
RL78 Family: RL78/G22 group

1.2 Renewal of the Plug-in Edition Main View
To open the main view, select the e2 studio menu, [Renesas Views], [Renesas QE], and [CapTouch
Workflow (QE)]. There are two types of main view.
When the main view is opened for the first time, a detailed guide appears (Figure 1: containing guidance
and tutorial videos). When the view is narrowed, a simple guide appears (Figure 2). Changing the widthtoggles between these view guides.

Guide

Figure 1: Detailed guide

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Figure 2: Simple guide

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Int8-quantization of AI Models Used in 3D Gesture

Calculations in AI models can be int8-quantized, which will help reduce ROM/RAM sizes and improve
processing speed.
To enable int8-quantization, select [Start AI Training]. In the [Gesture Training] dialogue box, click[Setting] to open [Training Setting]. In the [Training Setting] dialogue box, click the [Neural NetworkSetting] tab, and then enable [Size First (Quantized)] in [Neural Network Selection].

EnableFigure 3: Neural Network Setting (Training Setting dialog box)
When [Size First (Quantized)] is enabled, recognition might be less precise due to int8-quantization ofcalculations in AI models. Check the precision with the generated AI.

2. Operating Environment
e2 studio Integrated Development Environment 2022-10 or later
For how to use QE for Capacitive Touch, select [Help] in e2 studio, and then see [QE].

3. Installing the Product
Download the installer for QE for Capacitive Touch V3.2.0 from the link below.
https://www.renesas.com/software-tool/qe-capacitive-touch-development-assistance-tool-capacitivetouch-sensors#tab-release-information

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