Ambient light sensor provides red, green, blue, and clear sensing performance

Mouser now stocks Avago's APDS-9950 digital proximity RGB and ambient light sensor which provides red, green, blue, and clear (RGBC) light sensing and proximity detection. The device detects light intensity under a variety of lighting conditions and through a variety of attenuation materials, including dark glass. The proximity detection feature allows a large dynamic range of operation for accurate distance detection, like in a cell phone, for detecting when the user positions the phone close to their ear. IR LED sink current is factory-trimmed to provide consistent proximity response without requiring customer calibrations. An internal state machine provides the ability to put the device into a low power state in between proximity and RGBC measurements, providing very low average power consumption for applications such as OLED display control, RGB LED backlight control, ambient light colour temperature sensing, cell phone touch-screen disable, automatic speakerphone enable, automatic menu pop-up, mechanical switch replacement and industrial process control.