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@@ -49,12 +49,9 @@ of up to +/- 0.5 degrees even when compared against precise temperature
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readings. Be sure to have a high vs. low temperature limit gap of al least
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1.0 degree Celsius to avoid Tout "bouncing", though!
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-As for alarms, you can read the alarm status of the DS1621 via the 'alarms'
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-/sys file interface. The result consists mainly of bit 6 and 5 of the
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-configuration register of the chip; bit 6 (0x40 or 64) is the high alarm
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-bit and bit 5 (0x20 or 32) the low one. These bits are set when the high or
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-low limits are met or exceeded and are reset by the module as soon as the
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-respective temperature ranges are left.
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+The alarm bits are set when the high or low limits are met or exceeded and
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+are reset by the module as soon as the respective temperature ranges are
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+left.
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The alarm registers are in no way suitable to find out about the actual
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status of Tout. They will only tell you about its history, whether or not
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@@ -64,45 +61,3 @@ with neither of the alarms set.
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Temperature conversion of the DS1621 takes up to 1000ms; internal access to
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non-volatile registers may last for 10ms or below.
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-High Accuracy Temperature Reading
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-As said before, the temperature issued via the 9-bit i2c-bus data is
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-somewhat arbitrary. Internally, the temperature conversion is of a
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-different kind that is explained (not so...) well in the DS1621 data sheet.
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-To cut the long story short: Inside the DS1621 there are two oscillators,
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-both of them biassed by a temperature coefficient.
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-Higher resolution of the temperature reading can be achieved using the
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-internal projection, which means taking account of REG_COUNT and REG_SLOPE
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-(the driver manages them):
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-Taken from Dallas Semiconductors App Note 068: 'Increasing Temperature
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-Resolution on the DS1620' and App Note 105: 'High Resolution Temperature
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-Measurement with Dallas Direct-to-Digital Temperature Sensors'
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-
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-- Read the 9-bit temperature and strip the LSB (Truncate the .5 degs)
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-- The resulting value is TEMP_READ.
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-- Then, read REG_COUNT.
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-- And then, REG_SLOPE.
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-
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- TEMP = TEMP_READ - 0.25 + ((REG_SLOPE - REG_COUNT) / REG_SLOPE)
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-Note that this is what the DONE bit in the DS1621 configuration register is
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-good for: Internally, one temperature conversion takes up to 1000ms. Before
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-that conversion is complete you will not be able to read valid things out
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-of REG_COUNT and REG_SLOPE. The DONE bit, as you may have guessed by now,
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-tells you whether the conversion is complete ("done", in plain English) and
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-thus, whether the values you read are good or not.
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-The DS1621 has two modes of operation: "Continuous" conversion, which can
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-be understood as the default stand-alone mode where the chip gets the
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-temperature and controls external devices via its Tout pin or tells other
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-i2c's about it if they care. The other mode is called "1SHOT", that means
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-that it only figures out about the temperature when it is explicitly told
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-to do so; this can be seen as power saving mode.
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-
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-Now if you want to read REG_COUNT and REG_SLOPE, you have to either stop
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-the continuous conversions until the contents of these registers are valid,
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-or, in 1SHOT mode, you have to have one conversion made.
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