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I'm looking at this accelerometer LIS3DH and the datasheet says that it could enable interrupt generation on X/Y/Z "high" or "low" events. What do these events actually mean? When are "high events" generated? For X high events, are they generated when the sensor increases w.r.t. the X axis? Are these events indications of direction of movement?

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Manufacturers' Data sheets for devices are often supplemented by their Application Notes.

There are a bunch of application notes on the LIS3DH page under the "Design Resources" tab.

One of those is AN3308: LIS3DH: MEMS digital output motion sensor ultra low-power high performance 3-axis “nano” accelerometer

It describes the features of the device. For example, in Section "6.2 Threshold", it explains how to set an acceleration threshold for an acceleration-triggered event. SImilarly "6.3. Free-fall and wake-up interrupts" explains how to define the type of event the LIS3DH should trigger.

AFAICT, depending on the selected mode, the event could be triggered by either an acceleration exceeding a threshold, and so could be directions of movement, or when the device is orientated in a particular way.

Edit: Based on:

5 Interrupt generation
The LIS3DH interrupts signal can behave as free-fall, wake-up, 6D and 4D orientation detection, and click detection. Those signals can be driven to the two interrupt pins (INT1 and INT2).

6 Inertial interrupt
The LIS3DH can provide two inertial interrupt signals and offers several possibilities to personalize those signals ...

My interpretation is interrupts are intended to wake up the 'driving' MCU.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Thanks. Is the "inertial interrupt" actually meant to wake up the accelerometer itself or the MCU driving it? \$\endgroup\$
    – Kar
    Commented Nov 21, 2015 at 16:00

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