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R.Marek@sh.cvut.cz7f15b662005-05-26 12:42:19 +00001Kernel driver lm77
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4Supported chips:
5 * National Semiconductor LM77
6 Prefix: 'lm77'
7 Addresses scanned: I2C 0x48 - 0x4b
8 Datasheet: Publicly available at the National Semiconductor website
9 http://www.national.com/
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11Author: Andras BALI <drewie@freemail.hu>
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13Description
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16The LM77 implements one temperature sensor. The temperature
17sensor incorporates a band-gap type temperature sensor,
1810-bit ADC, and a digital comparator with user-programmable upper
19and lower limit values.
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Guenter Roeck50bf4652014-04-20 08:07:42 -070021The LM77 implements 3 limits: low (temp1_min), high (temp1_max) and
22critical (temp1_crit.) It also implements an hysteresis mechanism which
23applies to all 3 limits. The relative difference is stored in a single
24register on the chip, which means that the relative difference between
25the limit and its hysteresis is always the same for all 3 limits.
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27This implementation detail implies the following:
28* When setting a limit, its hysteresis will automatically follow, the
29 difference staying unchanged. For example, if the old critical limit
30 was 80 degrees C, and the hysteresis was 75 degrees C, and you change
31 the critical limit to 90 degrees C, then the hysteresis will
32 automatically change to 85 degrees C.
33* All 3 hysteresis can't be set independently. We decided to make
34 temp1_crit_hyst writable, while temp1_min_hyst and temp1_max_hyst are
35 read-only. Setting temp1_crit_hyst writes the difference between
36 temp1_crit_hyst and temp1_crit into the chip, and the same relative
37 hysteresis applies automatically to the low and high limits.
38* The limits should be set before the hysteresis.