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The APDS-9960 is controlled and monitored by data registers and a command register accessed through the serial

interface. These registers provide for a variety of control functions and can be read to determine results of the ADC

conversions.

Address Register Name Type Register Function Reset Value

0x00 –

0x7F

RAM R/W RAM 0x00

0x80 ENABLE R/W Enable states and interrupts 0x00

0x81 ATIME R/W ADC integration time 0xFF

0x83 WTIME R/W Wait time (non-gesture) 0xFF

0x84 AILTL R/W ALS interrupt low threshold low byte --

0x85 AILTH R/W ALS interrupt low threshold high byte --

0x86 AIHTL R/W ALS interrupt high threshold low byte 0x00

0x87 AIHTH R/W ALS interrupt high threshold high byte 0x00

0x89 PILT R/W Proximity interrupt low threshold 0x00

0x8B PIHT R/W Proximity interrupt high threshold 0x00

0x8C PERS R/W Interrupt persistence lters (non-gesture) 0x00

0x8D CONFIG1 R/W Conguration register one 0x40

0x8E PPULSE R/W Proximity pulse count and length 0x40

0x8F CONTROL R/W Gain control 0x00

0x90 CONFIG2 R/W Conguration register two 0x01

0x92 ID R Device ID ID

0x93 STATUS R Device status 0x00

0x94 CDATAL R Low byte of clear channel data 0x00

0x95 CDATAH R High byte of clear channel data 0x00

0x96 RDATAL R Low byte of red channel data 0x00

0x97 RDATAH R High byte of red channel data 0x00

0x98 GDATAL R Low byte of green channel data 0x00

0x99 GDATAH R High byte of green channel data 0x00

0x9A BDATAL R Low byte of blue channel data 0x00

0x9B BDATAH R High byte of blue channel data 0x00

0x9C PDATA R Proximity data 0x00

0x9D POFFSET_UR R/W Proximity oset for UP and RIGHT photodiodes 0x00

0x9E POFFSET_DL R/W Proximity oset for DOWN and LEFT photodiodes 0x00

0x9F CONFIG3 R/W Conguration register three 0x00

0xA0 GPENTH R/W Gesture proximity enter threshold 0x00

0xA1 GEXTH R/W Gesture exit threshold 0x00

0xA2 GCONF1 R/W Gesture conguration one 0x00

0xA3 GCONF2 R/W Gesture conguration two 0x00

0xA4 GOFFSET_U R/W Gesture UP oset register 0x00

0xA5 GOFFSET_D R/W Gesture DOWN oset register 0x00

0xA7 GOFFSET_L R/W Gesture LEFT oset register 0x00

0xA9 GOFFSET_R R/W Gesture RIGHT oset register 0x00

0xA6 GPULSE R/W Gesture pulse count and length 0x40

0xAA GCONF3 R/W Gesture conguration three 0x00

0xAB GCONF4 R/W Gesture conguration four 0x00

0xAE GFLVL R Gesture FIFO level 0x00

0xAF GSTATUS R Gesture status 0x00

0xE4 (1) IFORCE W Force interrupt 0x00

0xE5 (1) PICLEAR W Proximity interrupt clear 0x00

0xE6 (1) CICLEAR W ALS clear channel interrupt clear 0x00

0xE7 (1) AICLEAR W All non-gesture interrupts clear 0x00

0xFC GFIFO_U R Gesture FIFO UP value 0x00

0xFD GFIFO_D R Gesture FIFO DOWN value 0x00

0xFE GFIFO_L R Gesture FIFO LEFT value 0x00

0xFF GFIFO_R R Gesture FIFO RIGHT value 0x00

Note

1. Interrupt clear and force registers require a special I2C “address accessing” transaction. Please refer to the Register Description section for details.