AMC7812EVM Software Overview
Figure 27. Alarm Control Registers
5.2.6
AMC7812EVM GPIO + Temp Page
The AMC7812EVM contains one internal
local
temperature sensor and two temperature measurement
ports, D1 and D2, that are used for sensing temperatures from external remote locations.
shows
the
GPIO + Temp
page.
Figure 28. GPIO + Temp Page
The
GPIO + Temp
page allows the user to access or observe the AMC7812 registers related to the three
temperature monitoring functions. Pressing the
READ TEMP
button enables a temperature conversion
and updates the temperature value for all temperature functions in Celsius (°C) and hexadecimal.
Additionally, these functions can be modified by adjusting the corresponding
Hysteresis
and
nFactor
values.
Figure 29. Temperature Read
The
ALARMS
page also ties into the functionality of the
GPIO + Temp
page, as this page determines the
low and high threshold for all temperature configurations.
shows where to program the limits by
entering the desired Celsius values into the low or high limit fields.
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AMC7812EVM-PDK User’s Guide
SBAU177D – September 2010 – Revised August 2014
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