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1 | spi_lm70llp : LM70-LLP parport-to-SPI adapter |
2 | ============================================== | |
3 | ||
4 | Supported board/chip: | |
5 | * National Semiconductor LM70 LLP evaluation board | |
6 | Datasheet: http://www.national.com/pf/LM/LM70.html | |
7 | ||
8 | Author: | |
9 | Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan@designergraphix.com> | |
10 | ||
11 | Description | |
12 | ----------- | |
13 | This driver provides glue code connecting a National Semiconductor LM70 LLP | |
14 | temperature sensor evaluation board to the kernel's SPI core subsystem. | |
15 | ||
16 | In effect, this driver turns the parallel port interface on the eval board | |
17 | into a SPI bus with a single device, which will be driven by the generic | |
18 | LM70 driver (drivers/hwmon/lm70.c). | |
19 | ||
20 | The hardware interfacing on the LM70 LLP eval board is as follows: | |
21 | ||
22 | Parallel LM70 LLP | |
23 | Port Direction JP2 Header | |
24 | ----------- --------- ---------------- | |
25 | D0 2 - - | |
26 | D1 3 --> V+ 5 | |
27 | D2 4 --> V+ 5 | |
28 | D3 5 --> V+ 5 | |
29 | D4 6 --> V+ 5 | |
30 | D5 7 --> nCS 8 | |
31 | D6 8 --> SCLK 3 | |
32 | D7 9 --> SI/O 5 | |
33 | GND 25 - GND 7 | |
34 | Select 13 <-- SI/O 1 | |
35 | ----------- --------- ---------------- | |
36 | ||
37 | Note that since the LM70 uses a "3-wire" variant of SPI, the SI/SO pin | |
38 | is connected to both pin D7 (as Master Out) and Select (as Master In) | |
39 | using an arrangment that lets either the parport or the LM70 pull the | |
40 | pin low. This can't be shared with true SPI devices, but other 3-wire | |
41 | devices might share the same SI/SO pin. | |
42 | ||
43 | The bitbanger routine in this driver (lm70_txrx) is called back from | |
44 | the bound "hwmon/lm70" protocol driver through its sysfs hook, using a | |
45 | spi_write_then_read() call. It performs Mode 0 (SPI/Microwire) bitbanging. | |
46 | The lm70 driver then inteprets the resulting digital temperature value | |
47 | and exports it through sysfs. | |
48 | ||
49 | A "gotcha": National Semiconductor's LM70 LLP eval board circuit schematic | |
50 | shows that the SI/O line from the LM70 chip is connected to the base of a | |
51 | transistor Q1 (and also a pullup, and a zener diode to D7); while the | |
52 | collector is tied to VCC. | |
53 | ||
54 | Interpreting this circuit, when the LM70 SI/O line is High (or tristate | |
55 | and not grounded by the host via D7), the transistor conducts and switches | |
56 | the collector to zero, which is reflected on pin 13 of the DB25 parport | |
57 | connector. When SI/O is Low (driven by the LM70 or the host) on the other | |
58 | hand, the transistor is cut off and the voltage tied to it's collector is | |
59 | reflected on pin 13 as a High level. | |
60 | ||
61 | So: the getmiso inline routine in this driver takes this fact into account, | |
62 | inverting the value read at pin 13. | |
63 | ||
64 | ||
65 | Thanks to | |
66 | --------- | |
67 | o David Brownell for mentoring the SPI-side driver development. | |
68 | o Dr.Craig Hollabaugh for the (early) "manual" bitbanging driver version. | |
69 | o Nadir Billimoria for help interpreting the circuit schematic. |