[PATCH v10 14/14] dt-bindings: iio: afe: add bindings for temperature transducers

Liam Beguin
2021-12-19T22:40:35Z

An ADC is often used to measure other quantities indirectly.
This binding describe one case, the measurement of a temperature
through a temperature transducer (either voltage or current).

Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <lvb@xiphos.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)
+%YAML 1.2
+---
+$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/iio/afe/temperature-transducer.yaml#
+$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
+
+title: Temperature Transducer
+
+maintainers:
+ - Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>
+
+description: |
+ A temperature transducer is a device that converts a thermal quantity
+ into any other physical quantity. This binding applies to temperature to
+ voltage (like the LTC2997), and temperature to current (like the AD590)
+ linear transducers.
+ In both cases these are assumed to be connected to a voltage ADC.
+
+ When an io-channel measures the output voltage of a temperature analog front
+ end such as a temperature transducer, the interesting measurement is almost
+ always the corresponding temperature, not the voltage output. This binding
+ describes such a circuit.
+
+ The general transfer function here is (using SI units)
+ V(T) = Rsense * Isense(T)
+ T = (Isense(T) / alpha) + offset
+ T = 1 / (Rsense * alpha) * (V + offset * Rsense * alpha)
+
+ When using a temperature to voltage transducer, Rsense is set to 1.
+
+ The following circuits show a temperature to current and a temperature to
+ voltage transducer that can be used with this binding.
+
+ VCC
+ -----
+ |
+ +---+---+
+ | AD590 | VCC
+ +---+---+ -----
+ | |
+ V proportional to T +----+----+
+ | D+ --+ |
+ +---- Vout | LTC2997 +--- Vout
+ | D- --+ |
+ +---+----+ +---------+
+ | Rsense | |
+ +---+----+ -----
+ | GND
+ -----
+ GND
+
+properties:
+ compatible:
+ const: temperature-transducer
+
+ io-channels:
+ maxItems: 1
+ description: |
+ Channel node of a voltage io-channel.
+
+ '#io-channel-cells':
+ const: 0
+
+ sense-offset-millicelsius:
+ description: |
+ Temperature offset.
+ This offset is commonly used to convert from Kelvins to degrees Celsius.
+ In that case, sense-offset-millicelsius would be set to <(-273150)>.
+ default: 0
+
+ sense-resistor-ohms:
+ description: |
+ The sense resistor.
+ By default sense-resistor-ohms cancels out the resistor making the
+ circuit behave like a temperature transducer.
+ default: 1
+
+ alpha-ppm-per-celsius:
+ description: |
+ Sometimes referred to as output gain, slope, or temperature coefficient.
+
+ alpha is expressed in parts per million which can be micro-amps per
+ degrees Celsius or micro-volts per degrees Celsius. The is the main
+ characteristic of a temperature transducer and should be stated in the
+ datasheet.
+
+additionalProperties: false
+
+required:
+ - compatible
+ - io-channels
+ - alpha-ppm-per-celsius
+
+examples:
+ - |
+ ad950: temperature-sensor-0 {
+ compatible = "temperature-transducer";
+ #io-channel-cells = <0>;
+ io-channels = <&temp_adc 3>;
+
+ sense-offset-millicelsius = <(-273150)>; /* Kelvin to degrees Celsius */
+ sense-resistor-ohms = <8060>;
+ alpha-ppm-per-celsius = <1>; /* 1 uA/K */
+ };
+ - |
+ znq_tmp: temperature-sensor-1 {
+ compatible = "temperature-transducer";
+ #io-channel-cells = <0>;
+ io-channels = <&temp_adc 2>;
+
+ sense-offset-millicelsius = <(-273150)>; /* Kelvin to degrees Celsius */
+ alpha-ppm-per-celsius = <4000>; /* 4 mV/K */
+ };
+...
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