VaraPoint operates as a variable resistor, providing rate control in various form factors. By producing different resistances along each axis, which equate to different voltages at the analogue to digital converter, as many vectors, or directions, are produced as the analog to digital converter will allow. By utilizing variable resistors in this manner, VaraPoint is well suited to low-power applications. Although cost and reliability are critical for mass market control applications, VaraPoint's performance characteristics are exceptional. This level of accuracy and performance is more than adequate for pointing and gaming, and exceeds that required by all but a very few mission critical applications.
Form factor is another important consideration.
More information on VaraPoint MiniPoint MiniPoint is a full-function joystick designed to meet a wide range of input applications that require a small package size while maintaining very high levels of user performance and comfort. Cell phones, PDAs, digital cameras, hand held organizers, GPS devices, electronic games, portable stereos and notebook computers are just some of the hundreds of products that can benefit from MiniPoint s size, performance, reliability and price. MiniPointTM is a perfect compromise between the advantages of small size and end user ergonomics. Nearly as samll as MicroPoint, MiniPoint offers many of the same advantages in product integration. MiniPoint is available now in non-switch versions, and a switch version is due to be released in the first quarter of 2001.