Data Sheet

Interrupt Threshold Register (2h - 5h)

The interrupt threshold registers store the values to be used as the high and low trigger points for the comparison function

for interrupt generation. If the value generated by channel 0 crosses below or is equal to the low threshold speciﬁed, an

interrupt is asserted on the interrupt pin. If the value generated by channel 0 crosses above the high threshold speciﬁed,

an interrupt is asserted on the interrupt pin. Registers THRESHLOWLOW and THRESHLOWHIGH provide the low byte and

high byte, respectively, of the lower interrupt threshold. Registers THRESHHIGHLOW and THRESHHIGHHIGH provide the

low and high bytes, respectively, of the upper interrupt threshold. The high and low bytes from each set of registers are

combined to form a 16–bit threshold value. The interrupt threshold registers default to 00h on power up.

Table 7. Interrupt Threshold Register

THRESHLOWLOW 2h 7:0 ADC channel 0 lower byte of the low threshold

THRESHLOWHIGH 3h 7:0 ADC channel 0 upper byte of the low threshold

THRESHHIGHLOW 4h 7:0 ADC channel 0 lower byte of the high threshold

THRESHHIGHHIGH 5h 7:0 ADC channel 0 upper byte of the high threshold

NOTE: Since two 8-bit values are combined for a single 16-bit value for each of the high and low interrupt thresholds, the Send Byte protocol should

not be used to write to these registers. Any values transferred by the Send Byte protocol with the MSB set would be interpreted as the COMMAND ﬁeld

and stored as an address for subsequent read/write operations and not as the interrupt threshold information as desired. The Write Word protocol

should be used to write byte-paired registers. For example, the THRESHLOWLOW and THRESHLOWHIGH registers (as well as the THRESHHIGHLOW and

THRESHHIGHHIGH registers) can be written together to set the 16–bit ADC value in a single transaction.

7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

6h Resv Resv INTR PERSIST INTERRUPT

Reset Value: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Interrupt Control Register (6h)

The INTERRUPT register controls the extensive interrupt capabilities of the APDS-9301. The APDS-9301 permits tradi-

tional level-style interrupts. The interrupt persist bit ﬁeld (PERSIST) provides control over when interrupts occur. A value

of 0 causes an interrupt to occur after every integration cycle regardless of the threshold settings. A value of 1 results

in an interrupt after one integration time period outside the threshold window. A value of N (where N is 2 through 15)

results in an interrupt only if the value remains outside the threshold window for N consecutive integration cycles. For

example, if N is equal to 10 and the integration time is 402 ms, then the total time is approximately 4 seconds.

When a level Interrupt is selected, an interrupt is generated whenever the last conversion results in a value outside

of the programmed threshold window. The interrupt is active-low and remains asserted until cleared by writing the

COMMAND register with the CLEAR bit set.

NOTE: Interrupts are based on the value of Channel 0 only.

Table 8. Interrupt Control Register

FIELD BITS DESCRIPTION

Resv 7:6 Reserved. Write as 0.

INTR 5:4 INTR Control Select. This ﬁeld determines mode of interrupt logic according to Table 9, below.

PERSIST 3:0 Interrupt persistence. Controls rate of interrupts to the host processor as shown in Table 10, below.