User manual

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Description:
TCS3200 Color Sensor is a complete color detector, including a TAOS TCS3200 RGB
sensor chip and 4 white LEDs. The TCS3200 can detect and measure a nearly limitless
range of visible colors. Applications include test strip reading, sorting by color, ambient
light sensing and calibration, and color matching, to name just a few.
The TCS3200 has an array of photodetectors, each with either a red, green, or blue
filter, or no filter (clear). The filters of each color are distributed evenly throughout the
array to eliminate location bias among the colors. Internal to the device is an oscillator
which produces a square-wave output whose frequency is proportional to the
intensity of the chosen color.
Specification
• Single-Supply Operation (2.7V to 5.5V)
• High-Resolution Conversion of Light Intensity to Frequency
• Programmable Color and Full-Scale Output Frequency
• Power Down Feature
• Communicates Directly to Microcontroller
• S0~S1: Output frequency scaling selection inputs
• S2~S3: Photodiode type selection inputs
• OUT Pin: Output frequency
• Support LED lamp light supplement control
• Size: 28.4x28.4mm
PinOut
Pin
Description
GND
Power ground
OUT
Output frequency (fo).
S0
Output frequency scaling selection inputs.
S1
Output frequency scaling selection inputs.
S2
Photodiode type selection inputs
S3
Photodiode type selection inputs
Vcc
Power supply 5V/DC