PenMount Bulletin No. PMY09026

Released Date:December 30, 2009

PenMount Team Wishes All A Happy New Year

PenMount bulletin has been released regularly since 2007, let us review the almost 100 bulletins, we hope to offer you the news of our products at the first moment by this bulletin. This week is the last week of 2009, we do thank you for your support and concern. Because of you, we are able to finish our assignment and job successfully. We’d like to review our products of this year by this bulletin, and we expect your support for the coming year. Please share our merits with everybody, and tell us our shortcomings. The main job of PenMount this year is as the points below:

  • PenMount multi-touch control board & driver

PenMount is one of the first few brands that support multi-touch. With PenMount M1 Controller, plus the resistive touch screen, you can operate 2-12 zones at the same time, it’s highly suitable for industrial and medical products. Thank you all, due to the release of this product, many of our customers have started to use this concept for designing their products.

  • PenMount Gesture provides the convenient operation.

PenMount Gesture software provides the gesture of single finger or two fingers. For single finger operation, it has provided 15 functions of gesture. For two  finger touch operation, PenMount provides 6 functions of gesture, to let the users be able to use the hot keys and application programs in windows environment. Via the operation of gestures, you can open the application programs and functions as you want. 

  • PenMount has added the new work systems and renewed the drivers:

The PenMount touch controller has passed the Microsoft Windows 7 logo certificate this year, and are also compatible with the previous Windows operating systems. The PenMount device drivers also supports Windows Embedded CE , QNX 6.4, OpenSolaris, and many systems base on the Linux kernel, such as: Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Mandriva and Slackware. In 2010, we will still keep providing the renewal and support for the new needs.  

  • PenMount provides the software development kit ( SDK ) for Microsoft Windows operating system.

To aim the special needs of the customers, they can now integrate part of the functions of the control board software interface, such as: calibration, multiple monitor mapping and gesture recognizer to their own program, via the PenMount API, which is provided by PenMount SDK. Customers can also reach their goals by referring to the develop documents.

  • PenMount offers the customized functions and services.

Some certain products hope to add some other functions to the control board, PenMount is willing to offer the customized design, to modify the firmware in order to fulfill the needs of the customers. Take the multimedia system key for example, we add the control key operation program into the control board, now you may use your often use functions by operating the hardware directly.

PenMount Team keeps our idea and services to provide the complete control boards and drivers. The projected capacitive touch controllers are under development and are scheduled for release next year. We are also working hard in developing many other new hardware. PenMount wish to grow up and get stronger with you.

Lastly, we wish you all the good luck for the coming year. See you next year!

PenMount's hardware and software are designed to meet the needs and demands of the market; and if you have any specific requirements of your own, we would be most glad and ready to offer our full support and assistance in your product development.  For more information on the PenMount hardware and software products, you can download its data sheet and drivers via www.salt.com.tw or www.penmount.com. If you have any suggestions or comments, please email us at salt@salt.com.tw or penmount@seed.net.tw.