Team,
1. Are the I2C pins (SCL, SDA) open drain or push-pull? The I2C standard calls for open drain drivers but the datasheet describes both pins as 3-state CMOS outputs with both drive and sink capabilities. Your evaluation boards show pull-up resistors (typically 1K) on both lines. The datasheet says that SDA contains an internal 100 uA pull-up.
2. In the datasheet page 4, pin 19 in the bottom drawing has a typo: the pin name should be "SOUT/IR_SOUT