ADS includes four- or five-wire touch panel controllers standard on all its single board computers. ADS development systems currently ship with touch panels from 3M Touch Systems.
The following are links to some of touch panel manufacturers.
The Touch Panel Solutions Division was created by the May 2004 acquistion of Synmo Optoelectronics. Offering to match price on discontinued 3M resistive touch screens (as of Dec 2006).
3M Touch Systems
3M Touch Systems was created by the acquisition of Dynapro and Microtouch in 2001.
NOTICE: Effective 18-December-2006, 3M Touch Systems has discontinued its line of 4- and 8-wire "PL Resistive" touch screens.
Polyester Laminated(PL) series 4- and 8-wire: -20 to +50C, 20-50% relative humidity; high T/RH: 50C at 90% RH Film on Glass (FG) series 4- and 8-wire: -20 to +50C, 20-50% relative humidity; high T/RH: 50C at 80/90% RH Five-Wire: -20 to +50C, 20-50% relative humidity; high T/RH: 50C at 80/90% RH Integration article: Handling, mounting, gasketing, application design 3M Microtouch Resistive panel brochure (pdf) Explains analog-resistive technology and their product line Archived 3M Dynapro files
Touch Panels International (TPI)
We had some issues with nonlinearity of a TPI touch panel that made it unsuitable for use with most touch panel controllers (even ones not made by ADS). While we haven't used TPI's full product line, we note our experience here as a factor as you make your product decisions.
Edited by akidder 29-Jul-2005: Add link to 3M integration article. Edited by akidder 20-Dec-2006: Add TPI and comments. Add PanJit. Add notice of 3M Touch Systems discontinuations; move 3M lower on list.