DATASHEET
ISL29147
FN8409
Rev 3.00
January 6, 2015
Low Power Ambient Light and Proximity Sensor with Enhanced Infrared Rejection
The ISL29147 is a low power Ambient Light Sensor (ALS) and
Features
proximity (PROX) sensor. It has a built-in IR-LED for the
proximity function. The ALS function measures the amount of
light (in the visible spectrum) incident on the ISL29147.
• Internal IR-LED and sensor for a complete solution
• Ideal for applications under dark or tinted glass
The ALS function has a programmable ambient IR-rejection,
which allows fine tuning of light source variations and is ideal
for light sensor applications under dark protective glass. The
ALS provides a 12-bit measurement. A passive optical filter
removes unwanted wavelengths (IR or Ultraviolet) to ensure
accurate ALS measurement.
• Enhanced ambient sunlight rejection to 40k Lux
• Programmable proximity sleep time between proximity
measurements optimizes power consumption
• Hardware interrupt - no polling required
• Programmable IR compensation to fine-tune ALS
performance for various glass compositions
The proximity function includes a new offset adjustment to
compensate for the IR light reflected off the inside of the
protective glass cover and back to the ISL29147 sensor. This
offset adjustment allows the sensor to compensate for these
internal reflections and preserve the dynamic range of the
proximity measurement.
• Programmable IR LED drive current to 250mA
• Operates from 2.25V to 3.63V V
DD
• Power-down I
DD,
typical 0.2µA
DC
• Tiny 2.40x4x1.2 (mm) optical co-package
The built-in current-driver pulses an external infrared LED at a
programmed current for 90µs. The infrared light that is
reflected and received by the ISL29147 is digitized by an 8-bit
ADC. The proximity sensor also has a passive optical filter
designed to pass IR and reject visible wavelengths.
Applications
• Display dimming and adjustment
- Mobile devices: smart phones, PDA, GPS
- Computing: monitors, laptops, notebooks
- Picture frames, tablet-PCs, LCD-TV
The ISL29147 provides a hardware pin to indicate an interrupt
event. The interrupt pin saves power as the host microcontroller
can ‘wake-up’ on an interrupt event and does not need to poll
the device for an interrupt event. The interrupt generator is
user configurable and provides several options for ALS and
PROX trigger configurations. The ISL29147 supports an SMBus
• Object detection
- Touchscreen disabling
- Smart power-saving
2
compatible I C interface for configuration and control.
250
VDD_PULLUP
V
SCL, SDA and
INT PULLUPs
DD
IRDR 250mA
SMBus MASTER
SCL
200
U1
VDD
SCL
GND
LED+
5
6
7
8
4
SDA
3
SDA
INT
R
C2
1µF
1
150
INT
2
100Ω
IRDR
1
LED-
IRDR 125mA
C1
1µF
100
ISL29147
50
R : 100Ω 5% RESISTOR
1
0
0
C , C : 1µF CERAMIC 10V CAPACITOR
1
2
150
50
100
DISTANCE (mm)
FIGURE 1. TYPICAL APPLICATIONS CIRCUIT
FIGURE 2. PROXIMITY SENSITIVITY
FN8409 Rev 3.00
January 6, 2015
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