Application note

How to improve conducted noise robustness for touch sensing applications on STM32 MCUs

Rev 10 - February 2025

Introduction

Different levels of immunity to conducted RF voltage are required by touch sensing systems, depending on the application. Moreover, touch sensing systems are often designed to meet the requirements of industry standards, especially in the EMC compliance domain.

It is important to understand the environment in which the touch application is used, and to apply suitably adapted techniques to address the effects of unwanted noise disturbances.

This document provides a basic overview of conducted immunity testing and some guidelines to keep the system reliable when it is exposed to conducted noise.

STMicroelectronics provides free STMTouch touch sensing firmware libraries, directly integrated into the corresponding STM32Cube package.

Table 1. Applicable products
TypeProduct series
Microcontrollers
  • STM32F0 series, STM32F3 series
  • STM32L0 series, STM32L1 series, STM32L4 series, STM32L4+ series, STM32L5 series
  • STM32U0 series, STM32U5 series
  • STM32WB series, STM32WBA series
  • STM32U3 series

General information

This document applies to the STM32 Arm®-based microcontrollers.

Note: Arm is a registered trademark of Arm Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the US and/or elsewhere.