PRESSURE 11 CLICK
PID: MIKROE-3411 Weight: 23 g
Pressure 11 Click is a digital barometer on a Click board™. Pressure 11 is equipped
with the LPS33HW, an absolute piezoresistive pressure sensor, manufactured using a
proprietary technology. This sensor offers many benefits, including low power
consumption, high resolution of the pressure data, embedded thermal compensation,
FIFO buffer with several operating modes, temperature measurement, etc. The most
distinctive feature of this sensor is its ability to measure the pressure within the wide
range between 260 - 1260hPa, offering calibrated readings over the SPI or I2C digital
interface.
Pressure 11 Click is supported by a mikroSDK compliant library, which includes
functions that simplify software development. This Click board™ comes as a fully tested
product, ready to be used on a system equipped with the mikroBUS™ socket.
The pressure sensor contains protective gel, preventing water or humidity to damage
the circuit. Additionally, it is protected from overpressure, allowing it to withstand
pressure peaks up to 20x its measurement range. These features make Pressure 11
click a perfect tool for development of various pressure-based applications, especially
when low power consumption is required: portable weather stations, IoT and other
battery-operated pressure-related applications, wearables, and similar.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Pressure 11 click features the LPS33HW, an absolute digital output barometer IC in
water-resistant package, from STMicroelectronics. It can be used to measure absolute
pressure values from 260 - 1260hPa. The sensor can be exposed up to 2MPa of
pressure peaks, without causing any permanent damage. However, prolonged
exposure to such high pressure can affect the reliability and accuracy of the sensor.
The LPS33HW IC comprises a piezoresistive MEMS and an ASIC. The MEMS consists
of a suspended membrane manufactured using a proprietary technology, developed by
ST. The piezoresistive elements on the membrane form a Wheatstone bridge. By
applying a pressure, the balance of the bridge is disturbed, which causes a proportional
voltage to appear on its output. The output of the Wheatstone bridge is then processed
by the ASIC, which outputs conditioned and factory-calibrated data over the SPI or I2C
interface, in 24-bit, two’s complement format.
Pressure 11 click supports both SPI and I2C communication interfaces, allowing it to be
used with a wide range of different MCUs. The communication interface can be chosen
by moving SMD jumpers grouped under the COM SEL to an appropriate position (SPI
or I2C). The slave I2C address can also be configured by a SMD jumper, when the Click
board™ is operated in the I2C mode: a SMD jumper labeled as ADD SEL is used to set the
least significant bit (LSB) of the I2C address. When set to 1, the 7-bit I2C slave address
becomes 0b1011101x. If set to 0, the address becomes 0b1011100x. The last digit (x)
is the R/W bit.
One of distinctive features of the LPS33HW is a highly configurable FIFO buffer, with 32
slots of 40-bit data, allowing to buffer both pressure and temperature readings. The
FIFO buffer can be configured to work in one of several available modes, offering a
great flexibility. Along with the extensive interrupt engine which can signal several FIFOrelated events over a dedicated INT_DRDY pin, the FIFO buffer can be very useful for
writing an optimized MCU firmware.
Besides FIFO-related events, the extensive interrupt engine of the LPS33HW IC can be
configured to signal several other events over a dedicated INT_DRDY pin, including
events when a programmable low or high threshold level is exceeded, and events when
there is a data ready to be read from the output. The INT_DRDY pin of the LPS33HW
IC is routed to the mikroBUS™ INT pin. Its active state (active LOW or active HIGH) is
freely configurable.
Pressure data at the output is in 24-bit, two’s complement format. Thanks to the highly
advanced ASIC, the output is already formatted in physical units, with minimum
operations required from the host MCU. Since the sensitivity is 4096 LSB/hPa, the
output result should be divided by 4096 in order to obtain the value in hPa units.
Temperature data is in 16-bit two’s complement format, and it does not require any
conversions. The sensitivity of the temperature sensor is 100 LSB/⁰C so the output
result should be divided by 100 in order to obtain the value in ⁰C units. ASIC also offers
some other processing functions such as the lowpass filtering of the output data, which
helps reducing the inconsistencies due to sudden pressure changes.
This Click Board™ uses both I2C and SPI communication interfaces. It is designed to
be operated only with 3.3V logic levels. A proper logic voltage level conversion should
be performed before the Click board™ is used with MCUs with logic levels of 5V.
SPECIFICATIONS
Type
Pressure / Altitude
Applications
Pressure 11 click is a perfect tool for development of various pressurebased applications, especially when low power consumption is required:
portable weather stations, IoT and other battery-operated pressure-related
applications, wearables, and similar.
On-board
modules
LPS33HW, an absolute digital output barometer IC in water-resistant
package, from STMicroelectronics.
Key Features
Built in ASIC for output data processing, 24-bit conversion, low count of
external components required, water-proof casing offers reliability and long-
term stability, extensive programmable interrupt engine, advanced FIFO
buffer with several operating modes, etc.
Interface
I2C,SPI
Input Voltage
3.3V
Click board
size
M (42.9 x 25.4 mm)
PINOUT DIAGRAM
This table shows how the pinout on Pressure 11 Click corresponds to the pinout on the
mikroBUS™ socket (the latter shown in the two middle columns).
Notes
Pin
Pin
Notes
NC
1
AN
PWM
16
NC
NC
2
RST
INT
15
INT
CS
3
CS
RX
14
NC
SPI Clock
SCK
4
SCK
TX
13
NC
SPI Data OUT
SDO
5
MISO
SCL
12
SCL
I2C Clock
SPI Data IN
SDI
6
MOSI
SDA
11
SDA
I2C Data
Power Supply
3V3
7
3.3V
5V
10
NC
Ground
GND
8
GND
GND
9
GND
SPI Chip Select
Interrupt
Ground
ONBOARD SETTINGS AND INDICATORS
Label
Name
Default
Description
LD1
PWR
-
JP1, JP4
COM SEL
Left
Communication interface selection: left
position I2C, right position SPI
JP5
ADDR SEL
Left
Slave I2C address LSB selection: left position
0, right position 1
Power LED indicator
RPRESSURE 8 CLICK ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Description
Min
Typ
Max
Unit
Pressure range
260
-
1260
hPa
Operating temperature range
-40
-
+85
˚C
1
-
75
sps
Output Data rate
SOFTWARE SUPPORT
We provide a library for the Pressure 11 Click on our LibStock page, as well as a demo
application (example), developed using MikroElektronika compilers. The demo can run
on all the main MikroElektronika development boards.
Library Description
The library initializes and defines the I2C or SPI bus driver and drivers that offer a
choice for writing data in register and reads data form register. The library includes
function for read Pressure data in mBar and Temperature data in C. The user also has
the function for read device ID and function for read interrupt state.
Key functions:
float pressure11_getPressure() - Functions for pressure reading.
float pressure11_getTemperature() - Functions for temperature reading.
Examples description
The application is composed of the three sections :
System Initialization - Initializes SPI module and sets CS pin as OUTPUT and INT pin as INPUT.
Application Initialization - Initializes SPI driver and checks chip ID.
Application Task - Reads Pressure and Temperature values and displays it on UART LOG.
void applicationTask()
{
float Temperature;
float Pressure;
Temperature = pressure11_getTemperature();
FloatToStr(Temperature,demoText);
mikrobus_logWrite( "Temperature: ", _LOG_TEXT );
mikrobus_logWrite( demoText, _LOG_TEXT );
mikrobus_logWrite( " C", _LOG_LINE );
Pressure = pressure11_getPressure();
FloatToStr(Pressure,demoText);
mikrobus_logWrite( "Pressure: ", _LOG_TEXT );
mikrobus_logWrite( demoText, _LOG_TEXT );
mikrobus_logWrite( " hPa (mBar)", _LOG_LINE );
mikrobus_logWrite( "‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐", _LOG_LINE );
Delay_ms( 500 );
}
The full application code, and ready to use projects can be found on our LibStock page.
Other mikroE Libraries used in the example:
I2C
SPI
Conversions
Additional notes and informations
Depending on the development board you are using, you may need USB UART
click, USB UART 2 click or RS232 click to connect to your PC, for development systems
with no UART to USB interface available on the board. The terminal available in all
MikroElektronika compilers, or any other terminal application of your choice, can be
used to read the message.
MIKROSDK
This click board is supported with mikroSDK - MikroElektronika Software Development
Kit. To ensure proper operation of mikroSDK compliant click board demo applications,
mikroSDK should be downloaded from the LibStock and installed for the compiler you
are using.
For more information about mikroSDK, visit the official page.
https://www.mikroe.com/pressure‐11‐click/3‐21‐19