Avago Technologies Introduces Industry’s Smallest Surface Mount Digital Color Sensors for Small Consumer Electronic Applications

Avago Technologies Introduces Industry's Smallest Surface Mount Digital Color Sensors for Small Consumer Electronic Applications

Avago Technologies announced two miniature surface mount technology (SMT) digital color sensors for use in small consumer and portable electronic applications.

Easy-to-Use Development Kit Enables Designers to Quickly Evaluate and Design-in Color Sensor Modules for Portable Consumer, and Color Detection Applications

Avago’s ADJD-S311 is the smallest in the industry with dimensions of 2.2 mm by 2.2 mm by 0.76 mm. It is a CMOS IC with integrated RGB filters that targets designers of portable devices which require higher integration, smaller size and low power consumption.

The ADJD-S371-QR999 with dimensions of 3.9 mm by 4.5 mm by 1.8 mm is the industry’s first and smallest reflective digital color sensing module that incorporates a white LED and digital color sensor. Avago’s ADJD-311 and ADJD-S371 digital color sensors are four-channel Red, Green and Blue (RGB) and clear digital color sensors with 10-bit resolution which provide designers with easy integration, installation, and design flexibility – especially for those designs where board space is constrained.

Some of the target applications that are ideal for Avago’s miniature SMT series of RGB color sensors include mobile and consumer products such as mobile phones, PDAs, MP3 players, hand-held games, portable color detection and measurement devices, and a wide range of other small consumer applications.

The small form factor ADJD-S311 four-channel digital sensor comes in a chip scale package (CSP) that enables designers to accommodate more enhancements in the same amount of board space and can lead to further reductions in design and manufacturing costs.  The ADJD-S371 is a reflective sensor module which incorporates the ADJD-S311 and a white chipLED soldered to the printed circuit board (PCB) with a separator targets applications that require reflective color sensing.

Both the ADJD-S311 and ADJD-S371 digital color sensors provide all the necessary circuitry to directly interface with a microprocessor using a conventional two-wire serial interface.  Moreover, these sensors operate from a 2.5 V supply voltage, providing significantly lower power consumption for portable devices.  To make it easy for designers to evaluate and design-in these new miniature color sensors, Avago also offers a complete “plug and play” development kit that interfaces to a personal computer through a USB port.  Avago’s HDJD-JD07 development kit comes complete with all the tools and software customers need to quickly develop their color sensing and measurement applications.  Moreover, this development kit is ideal for use by designers who have little or no prior experience using color sensors for their applications.

Key Features

    * Fully integrated RGB Clear digital color sensor
    * Integrated solution with sensor, LED and separator in module for ease of design (ADJD-S371)
    * 10-bit resolution per channel output
    * Built in oscillator/selectable external clock
    * Low supply voltage: 2.5V
    * Low power sleep mode
    * Independent gain selection for each channel
    * Operating temperature: 0º to 70° C
    * Lead-free package

HDJD-JD07 Development Kit Features

    * Easy interface with PC via standard USB port
    * User-friendly graphical user interface with displays of registers, output digital readings, white calibration, conversion to standard color format, data-log and CIE color chart features.

U.S. Pricing and Availability

Avago’s ADJD-S311 and ADJD-S371 are priced starting at $1.50 and $2.50 respectively in 10,000 piece quantities.  The HDJD-JD07 development kits are priced at $515 each.