# 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 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 */ }; ...