The AD7148 is designed for use with capacitance sensors imple- menting functions such as buttons, scroll bars, and wheels. The sensors need only one PCB layer, enabling ultrathin applications. The AD7148 is an integrated capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC) with on-chip environmental calibration. The CDC has eight inputs channeled through a switch matrix to a 16-bit, 250 kHz sigma-delta (Σ-Δ) converter. The CDC is capable of sensing changes in the capacitance of the external sensors and uses this information to register a sensor activation. The external sensors can be arranged as a series of buttons, as a scroll bar or wheel, or as a combination of sensor types. By programming the registers, the user has full control over the CDC setup. High resolution sensors require minimal software to run on the host processor.