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1 | Kernel driver ntc_thermistor |
| 2 | ================= | |
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| 8b6f5e0f | 4 | Supported thermistors from Murata: |
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5 | * Murata NTC Thermistors NCP15WB473, NCP18WB473, NCP21WB473, NCP03WB473, NCP15WL333 |
| 6 | Prefixes: 'ncp15wb473', 'ncp18wb473', 'ncp21wb473', 'ncp03wb473', 'ncp15wl333' | |
| 7 | Datasheet: Publicly available at Murata | |
| 8 | ||
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9 | Supported thermistors from EPCOS: |
| 10 | * EPCOS NTC Thermistors B57330V2103 | |
| 11 | Prefixes: b57330v2103 | |
| 12 | Datasheet: Publicly available at EPCOS | |
| 13 | ||
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14 | Other NTC thermistors can be supported simply by adding compensation |
| 15 | tables; e.g., NCP15WL333 support is added by the table ncpXXwl333. | |
| 16 | ||
| 17 | Authors: | |
| 18 | MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com> | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | Description | |
| 21 | ----------- | |
| 22 | ||
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23 | The NTC (Negative Temperature Coefficient) thermistor is a simple thermistor |
| 24 | that requires users to provide the resistance and lookup the corresponding | |
| 25 | compensation table to get the temperature input. | |
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26 | |
| 27 | The NTC driver provides lookup tables with a linear approximation function | |
| 28 | and four circuit models with an option not to use any of the four models. | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | The four circuit models provided are: | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | $: resister, [TH]: the thermistor | |
| 33 | ||
| 34 | 1. connect = NTC_CONNECTED_POSITIVE, pullup_ohm > 0 | |
| 35 | ||
| 36 | [pullup_uV] | |
| 37 | | | | |
| 38 | [TH] $ (pullup_ohm) | |
| 39 | | | | |
| 40 | +----+-----------------------[read_uV] | |
| 41 | | | |
| 42 | $ (pulldown_ohm) | |
| 43 | | | |
| 44 | --- (ground) | |
| 45 | ||
| 46 | 2. connect = NTC_CONNECTED_POSITIVE, pullup_ohm = 0 (not-connected) | |
| 47 | ||
| 48 | [pullup_uV] | |
| 49 | | | |
| 50 | [TH] | |
| 51 | | | |
| 52 | +----------------------------[read_uV] | |
| 53 | | | |
| 54 | $ (pulldown_ohm) | |
| 55 | | | |
| 56 | --- (ground) | |
| 57 | ||
| 58 | 3. connect = NTC_CONNECTED_GROUND, pulldown_ohm > 0 | |
| 59 | ||
| 60 | [pullup_uV] | |
| 61 | | | |
| 62 | $ (pullup_ohm) | |
| 63 | | | |
| 64 | +----+-----------------------[read_uV] | |
| 65 | | | | |
| 66 | [TH] $ (pulldown_ohm) | |
| 67 | | | | |
| 68 | -------- (ground) | |
| 69 | ||
| 70 | 4. connect = NTC_CONNECTED_GROUND, pulldown_ohm = 0 (not-connected) | |
| 71 | ||
| 72 | [pullup_uV] | |
| 73 | | | |
| 74 | $ (pullup_ohm) | |
| 75 | | | |
| 76 | +----------------------------[read_uV] | |
| 77 | | | |
| 78 | [TH] | |
| 79 | | | |
| 80 | --- (ground) | |
| 81 | ||
| 82 | When one of the four circuit models is used, read_uV, pullup_uV, pullup_ohm, | |
| 83 | pulldown_ohm, and connect should be provided. When none of the four models | |
| 84 | are suitable or the user can get the resistance directly, the user should | |
| 85 | provide read_ohm and _not_ provide the others. | |
| 86 | ||
| 87 | Sysfs Interface | |
| 88 | --------------- | |
| 89 | name the mandatory global attribute, the thermistor name. | |
| 90 | ||
| 91 | temp1_type always 4 (thermistor) | |
| 92 | RO | |
| 93 | ||
| 94 | temp1_input measure the temperature and provide the measured value. | |
| 95 | (reading this file initiates the reading procedure.) | |
| 96 | RO | |
| 97 | ||
| 98 | Note that each NTC thermistor has only _one_ thermistor; thus, only temp1 exists. |