{
 "id": "apds-9960-stale-prefetch-corruption-above-781-khz",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "An APDS-9960 above 781 kHz returns the byte it prefetched during the previous transaction, which looks like two different faults depending on what you read last",
 "symptom": "Above a threshold the sensor returns wrong data with a clean acknowledgement and no error flag, and the wrong data looks like a different fault depending on how you read. Loop single-byte reads of one register and it returns the next register's contents, which reads as a register-pointer fault. Block-read a window that ends just before a zero register and the first byte comes back 0x00 with every later byte correct, which reads as a bus-turnaround fault. Two runs on this bench published those two explanations and neither was right.",
 "hw": [
  "apds-9960",
  "rp2040",
  "i2c",
  "stemma-qt"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "micropython"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Explain why an I2C sensor returns wrong data above a bus clock threshold",
 "date": "2026-08-22",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}