User Guide
UG000440
AS6204
Eval Kit
AS6204-EK
v1-01
• 2019-Apr-17
Page 1: ...User Guide UG000440 AS6204 Eval Kit AS6204 EK v1 01 2019 Apr 17 ...
Page 2: ...on 3 2 Getting Started 4 3 Hardware Description 5 3 1 Hardware Architecture 5 3 2 AS6204 Configuration 6 3 3 Power Supply and Connections 6 4 Software Description 7 4 1 Index Register 7 4 2 Temperature Register 8 5 Schematics Layers and BOM 9 5 1 Schematics 9 5 2 Layout and Board Dimensions 9 5 3 Bill of Materials 11 6 Revision Information 12 7 Legal Information 13 ...
Page 3: ...re sensors without the need to design a custom PCB This small form factor board is fully assembled with the AS6204 temperature sensor and its necessary external components 1 1 Kit Content This kit contains following material listed in Figure 1 Figure 1 Kit Content Pos Item Comment 1 AS6204 EK AB Eval Kit Adapter Board 1 2 Ordering Information Figure 2 Ordering Code Ordering Code Description AS6204...
Page 4: ...for rapid setup of a digital temperature sensor To get started connect the board to your microcontroller configuration as described in Figure 4 Add a command in your source code to request two bytes from the selected I C address Finally convert the returned data as described in chapter 4 2 to get the actual temperature value Figure 3 Adapter Board ...
Page 5: ... Board Pin Out Pin Symbol Description Info 1 SCL I C clock Use R1 if pull up is required 2 SDA I C data Use R2 if pull up is required 3 GND Ground 4 VDD Power supply According datasheet 5 IRQ Digital output pin Alert interrupt output 3 1 Hardware Architecture Figure 5 AS6204 Adapter Board R1 R2 and R3 are pull up resistors for the I C interface and the Alert pin Depending on the application it is ...
Page 6: ...address selector must not be left open Figure 6 I C Address Jumper Settings Address Selector Device Address GND 100 1000 0x48 VDD 100 1001 0x49 SDA 100 1010 0x4A SCL 100 1011 0x4B 3 3 Power Supply and Connections The PCB has to be connected to an external microcontroller P1 is populated with a 1x5 pin header and is required for power supply as well as I C communication In addition to that it can b...
Page 7: ...isters For additional configuration settings the Config register 0x1 has to be addressed Please refer the data sheet for details Figure 9 Configuration Register Address Symbol Register Description 0x0 TVAL Contains the temperature value 0x1 CONFIG Configuration Register Configuration settings of the temperature sensor 0x2 TLOW TLOW Register Low temperature threshold value 0x3 THIGH THIGH Register ...
Page 8: ...8 D7 D6 D5 D4 D3 D2 D1 D0 T11 T10 T9 T8 T7 T6 T5 T4 T3 T2 T1 T0 0 0 0 0 MSB Byte LSB Byte The temperature register contains the digitally converted temperature value It consists of 2 bytes and can be converted according to the following formula Positive values Value LSB Negative values Complement Value LSB 1 Example 75 C 75 𝐶 0 0625 𝐶 1200 𝐵𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 0100 1011 0000 𝐻𝑒𝑥 4𝐵0 Example 40 C 40 𝐶 0 0625 𝐶 1...
Page 9: ... 17 13 9 5 Schematics Layers and BOM The schematics layout and BOM of the adapter board are shown below for reference 5 1 Schematics The schematics of the board is shown below in Figure 12 Figure 12 Schematics 5 2 Layout and Board Dimensions The PCB layout is shown below in Figure 13 and Figure 14 ...
Page 10: ...Feedback AS6204 Schematics Layers and BOM Demo Kit Manual PUBLIC UG000440 v1 01 2019 Apr 17 13 10 Figure 13 Top Layer Figure 14 Bottom Layer The board dimensions are shown below in Figure 15 Figure 15 Dimensions ...
Page 11: ...al PUBLIC UG000440 v1 01 2019 Apr 17 13 11 5 3 Bill of Materials The BOM of the Board is shown below in Figure 16 Figure 16 BOM Position Name Value 1 R7 NP 2 R6 NP 3 R5 NP 4 R4 NP 5 R3 10 K 6 R2 10 K 7 R1 10 K 8 P1 Header 5 9 C2 NP 10 C1 10 nF 11 AS6204 AS6204 WLCSP ...
Page 12: ... Apr 17 13 12 6 Revision Information Changes from previous version to current revision v1 01 Page Initial version Page and figure numbers for the previous version may differ from page and figure numbers in the current revision Correction of typographical errors is not explicitly mentioned ...
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