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ISL29125
FN8424
Rev.3.00
Jan 13, 2017
Digital Red, Green and Blue Color Light Sensor with IR Blocking Filter
The ISL29125 is a low power, high sensitivity, RED, GREEN and
Features
BLUE color light sensor (RGB) with an I2C (SMBus compatible)
• 56µA operating current, 0.5µA shutdown current
interface. Its state-of-the-art photodiode array provides an
accurate RGB spectral response and excellent light source to
light source variation (LS2LS). The ISL29125 is designed to
reject IR in light sources allowing the device to operate in
environments from sunlight to dark rooms. The integrating
ADC rejects 50Hz and 60Hz flicker caused by artificial light
sources. A selectable range allows the user to optimize
sensitivity suitable for the specific application. In normal
operation mode the device consumes 56µA, which reduces to
0.5µA in power-down mode. The ISL29125 supports hardware
and software user programmable interrupt thresholds. The
Interrupt persistency feature reduces false trigger notification.
The device operates on supplies (VDD) from 2.25V to 3.63V, I2C
supply from 1.7V to 3.63V, and operating temperature across the
-40°C to +85°C range.
• Selectable range (Via I2C)
• I2C (SMBus compatible) output
• ADC resolution 16 bits
• Programmable interrupt windows
• Two optical sensitivity ranges
- Range 0 = 5.7m lux to 375 lux
- Range 1 = 0.152 lux to 10,000 lux
• Operating power supply 2.25 to 3.63V
• I2C power supply 1.7V to 3.63V
• 6 Ld ODFN (1.65x1.65x0.7mm) package
Applications
Related Literature
AN1914, “Evaluation Hardware/Software User Manual for RGB
Sensor”
• Smart phone, PDA, GPS, tablet PCs, LCD-TVs, digital picture
frames, digital cameras
• Dynamic display color balancing
AN1910, “Enhancing RGB Sensitivity and Conversion Time”
• Printer color enhancement
• Industrial/commercial LED lighting color management
• Ambient light color detection/correction
• OLED display aging compensation
R1
C1
C2
Vbus
VDD
2.0
R2 R3 R4
1.8
NORMALIZED TO GREEN
1.6
1
1.4
VDD
RED
GREEN
1.2
1.0
0.8
0.6
SDA
SCL
SDA
SCL
INT
4
6
BLUE
1931 STD RED
1931 STD GREEN
1931 STD BLUE
2
ISL29125
NC
MCU
0.4
0.2
0.0
GPIO
5
GND
3
R1 - 100Ω
R
2 - 2.7kΩ to 10kΩ
350 380 410 440 470 500 530 560 590 620 650 680 710 740 770 800 830
R3 - 2.7kΩ to 10kΩ
WAVELENGTH
R
C
C
4 - 2.7kΩ to 10kΩ
1 - 1µF
2 - 0.1µF
FIGURE 1. TYPICAL APPLICATION DIAGRAM
FIGURE 2. NORMALIZED SPECTRAL RESPONSE FOR RED, GREEN
AND BLUE SENSING
FN8424 Rev.3.00
Jan 13, 2017
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