On Mon Jul 12, 2021 at 12:11 PM EDT, Rob Herring wrote:

On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 12:09:42PM -0400, Liam Beguin wrote:

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From: Liam Beguin <redacted>

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 <redacted>
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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 <lvb@xiphos.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

Hi Rob,

This is a io-channel consumer and producer?

Yes, this is a consumer and a producer.
It consumes a single ADC channel and can be fed to something like hwmon.

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+
+  sense-offset-millicelsius:
+    description: |
+      Temperature offset. The default is <0>.
+      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

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+
+  sense-resistor-ohms:
+    description: |
+      The sense resistor. Defaults to <1>.
+      Set sense-resistor-ohms to <1> when using a temperature to voltage
+      transducer.

default: 1

Though why would we set the value to 1 if the default is 1?

I can rephrase this. I meant to say that the default will make this
behave like a temperature to voltage transducer.

Liam

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+
+  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

Blank line here.

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+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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