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1 | Kernel driver lm73 |
| 2 | ================== | |
| 3 | ||
| 4 | Supported chips: | |
| 5 | * Texas Instruments LM73 | |
| 6 | Prefix: 'lm73' | |
| 7 | Addresses scanned: I2C 0x48, 0x49, 0x4a, 0x4c, 0x4d, and 0x4e | |
| 8 | Datasheet: Publicly available at the Texas Instruments website | |
| 9 | http://www.ti.com/product/lm73 | |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | Author: Guillaume Ligneul <guillaume.ligneul@gmail.com> | |
| 12 | Documentation: Chris Verges <kg4ysn@gmail.com> | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | ||
| 15 | Description | |
| 16 | ----------- | |
| 17 | ||
| 18 | The LM73 is a digital temperature sensor. All temperature values are | |
| 19 | given in degrees Celsius. | |
| 20 | ||
| 21 | Measurement Resolution Support | |
| 22 | ------------------------------ | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | The LM73 supports four resolutions, defined in terms of degrees C per | |
| 25 | LSB: 0.25, 0.125, 0.0625, and 0.3125. Changing the resolution mode | |
| 26 | affects the conversion time of the LM73's analog-to-digital converter. | |
| 27 | From userspace, the desired resolution can be specified as a function of | |
| 28 | conversion time via the 'update_interval' sysfs attribute for the | |
| 29 | device. This attribute will normalize ranges of input values to the | |
| 30 | maximum times defined for the resolution in the datasheet. | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | Resolution Conv. Time Input Range | |
| 33 | (C/LSB) (msec) (msec) | |
| 34 | -------------------------------------- | |
| 35 | 0.25 14 0..14 | |
| 36 | 0.125 28 15..28 | |
| 37 | 0.0625 56 29..56 | |
| 38 | 0.03125 112 57..infinity | |
| 39 | -------------------------------------- | |
| 40 | ||
| 41 | The following examples show how the 'update_interval' attribute can be | |
| 42 | used to change the conversion time: | |
| 43 | ||
| 44 | $ echo 0 > update_interval | |
| 45 | $ cat update_interval | |
| 46 | 14 | |
| 47 | $ cat temp1_input | |
| 48 | 24250 | |
| 49 | ||
| 50 | $ echo 22 > update_interval | |
| 51 | $ cat update_interval | |
| 52 | 28 | |
| 53 | $ cat temp1_input | |
| 54 | 24125 | |
| 55 | ||
| 56 | $ echo 56 > update_interval | |
| 57 | $ cat update_interval | |
| 58 | 56 | |
| 59 | $ cat temp1_input | |
| 60 | 24062 | |
| 61 | ||
| 62 | $ echo 85 > update_interval | |
| 63 | $ cat update_interval | |
| 64 | 112 | |
| 65 | $ cat temp1_input | |
| 66 | 24031 | |
| 67 | ||
| 68 | As shown here, the lm73 driver automatically adjusts any user input for | |
| 69 | 'update_interval' via a step function. Reading back the | |
| 70 | 'update_interval' value after a write operation will confirm the | |
| 71 | conversion time actively in use. | |
| 72 | ||
| 73 | Mathematically, the resolution can be derived from the conversion time | |
| 74 | via the following function: | |
| 75 | ||
| 76 | g(x) = 0.250 * [log(x/14) / log(2)] | |
| 77 | ||
| 78 | where 'x' is the output from 'update_interval' and 'g(x)' is the | |
| 79 | resolution in degrees C per LSB. | |
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| 81 | Alarm Support | |
| 82 | ------------- | |
| 83 | ||
| 84 | The LM73 features a simple over-temperature alarm mechanism. This | |
| 85 | feature is exposed via the sysfs attributes. | |
| 86 | ||
| 87 | The attributes 'temp1_max_alarm' and 'temp1_min_alarm' are flags | |
| 88 | provided by the LM73 that indicate whether the measured temperature has | |
| 89 | passed the 'temp1_max' and 'temp1_min' thresholds, respectively. These | |
| 90 | values _must_ be read to clear the registers on the LM73. |