Hi Jeff,
Thank you for your comments.I had set the Bypass enable and i am able to read the wia register as 48H.i am a newbie.I am also getting the x,y,z readings in hex format for the magnetometer.Kindly let me know how am i suppose to calculate which way is North with the three 16 bits register values-X_mag,Y_mag and Z_mag.
Thank you once again.