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TCS3410 Color and Flicker Detection Sensor

Universal ambient light RGB sensor for behind OLED displays or auxiliary to camera

Features

1mlux detectable illuminance
UV/IR blocking filter for RGBC channels
Flicker-immune ALS sensing with programmable integration time
Concurrent flicker and ALS measurement with new simplified readout methodology
Up to 7kHz flicker detection (14kHz sampling)
Configurable sleep mode
Interrupt-driven device
Digital and analog saturation flags
Decreases traffic on I2C bus

Benefits

Invisible ALS sensing under any glass type
Unique fast ALS integration mode
Integrated ambient light flicker detection on chip
Low power consumption and minimum I2C traffic
Integrated status checking for all functions
On chip data compression

Product parameters

Supply Voltage [V]	1.7 - 1.98
Temperature Range [°C]	-30 to 85
Package	OLGA, Pin count 6
Interface	I²C - 1.8V
Color Sensor Channels	RGBC+Flicker
IR Blocking Filter	Yes
Programmable	Gain, Integration Time, Interrupt, Configuration
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General description

The TCS3410 features ambient light sensing, as well as flicker detection. The device comes in a low-profile and small footprint, L2.0mm x W1.0mm x H0.5mm optical QFN package. The Ambient Light Sensing function provides three concurrent ambient light and flicker sensing channels, which can be arbitrarily connected to the photodiodes via a programmable multiplexer. TCS3410 incorporates a set of RGB photodiodes and a Clear photodiode. The RGB and Clear photodiode area is covered with a UV/IR blocking filter. This architecture accurately measures ambient light and enables the calculation of irradiance of different light sources. Calculation results help to improve display appearance and picture taking. The device also integrates direct detection of ambient light flicker. Flicker detection is executed in parallel with ambient light sensing and has independent gain configuration. The flicker detection engine will sample and buffer data for calculating flicker frequencies externally on a host CPU.

This product suits for the following applications:

Indoor/outdoor brightness information
Brightness management for displays
Camera image correction assistance
Flicker-immune camera operation

Tools

Title	Category	Headline	Buy
TCS3410 Eval Kit	Application Board	Evaluation Kit for TCS3410

Technical documents

Type	Description	Language
Datasheet	TCS3410 Datasheet	English
Application Note	Basic Pre-Production Light & Color Sensor Solution Validation Process	English
Application Note	TCS3410 ALS/Color/Flicker	English
Special Datasheet	TCS3410 short datasheet	English

Environmental documents

	Type	Description	Language
	RoHS Certificate	RoHS Certificate TCS3410	English

Other information

	Type	Description	Language
	Block Diagram	TCS3410 Block Diagram	English