THERMO 12 CLICK
PID: MIKROE-3636
Weight: 16 g
Thermo 12 click is a Click board™ equipped with the sensor IC, which can
digitize temperature measurements between -40°C and +150°C so that the temperature
measurement data can be processed by the host MCU. Thermo 12 click provides an
accuracy of ±0.2°C in the range from -10°C to +85°C. The sensor used on this Click
board™ has a great combination of features that make it a perfect choice for any
temperature measurement application: ultralow temperature drift, low power
consumption, programmable interrupt engine, compact sensor size, interrupt and critical
temperature output pins, and more. The sensor itself requires almost no external
components, which simplifies the design, reducing the cost and cutting the time to
market.
Thermo 12 click 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 Click board™ is specially designed so it retains the specified characteristics of the
sensor IC. Equipped with this sophisticated, accurate and simple to use sensor IC, it
can be used for measuring and monitoring the temperature in a whole range of
applications, such as the PC case and other internal components temperature
monitoring, office equipment and entertainment systems thermal monitoring, general
purpose thermal measurement, and similar digital thermal measurement applications,
that require a precise thermal measurement and an overtemperature alert.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The active temperature sensing component on Thermo 12 click is the ADT7420, a high
accuracy temperature sensor IC with the 2-Wire interface, from Analog Devices. The
Click board™ itself has a reasonably small number of components because most of the
measurement circuitry is already integrated on the ADT7420 sensor. The I2C / SMBus
compatible serial interface lines, along with the INT and CT pins, which also works in
the open drain configuration, are pulled up by the onboard resistors. The 2-Wire lines
are routed to the respective I2C lines of the mikroBUS™ (SCK and SDA), INT pin is
routed to the INT pin of the mikroBUS™, while the CT pin is routed to the CS pin of the
mikroBUS™.
The sensor IC uses the I2C/SMBus compatible communication interface. There are
thirteen registers, used to set the high and low temperature limits, temperature
hysteresis for the interrupt events, configuration register used to store all the working
parameters, status - read-only register which holds the sampled temperature data, and
more. More information about all the registers can be found in the ADT7420 datasheet.
However, provided library contains functions that simplify the use of the Thermo 12
click. The included application example demonstrates their functionality and it can be
used as a reference for custom design.
An analog signal from the thermal sensor is sampled by the internal ADC converter,
with the resolution of 16 bits. Thanks to high resolution ADC, the step size can be as
small as 0.0073°C. By default, the ADC resolution is set to 13 bits (0.0625°C step size),
but it is a user programmable mode that can be changed through the serial interface
(I2C) up to 16 bits. The INT pin is used to trigger an interrupt event on the host MCU.
This pin has a programmable polarity: it can be set to be asserted either to a HIGH logic
level or to a LOW logic level by setting POL bit in the configuration register. Since the
Click board™ features a pull-up resistor, it is advised to set the polarity so that the
asserted state drives the pin to a LOW logic level. There is also a CT pin which gives an
alert when the measured temperature exceeds the limit value. A critical
overtemperature value is stored in the TCRIT registers.
Both, the INT pin and CT pins can operate in comparator and interrupt event modes.
When working in the Comparator mode, these pins will be triggered whenever a
temperature limit is exceeded. The pins stays asserted until the temperature drops
below the hysteresis level. Both values are set in the respective temperature registers
(limit and hysteresis). This mode is useful for thermostat-like applications: it can be used
to power down a system in case of overheating or turn off the cooling fan if the
temperature is low enough.
If set to work in the therm mode, the INT and CT pins will stay asserted when the
temperature exceeds the value in the high limit register. When the temperature drops
below the hysteresis level, the INT pin will be cleared. This mode is used to trigger an
interrupt on the host MCU, which is supposed to read the sensor when the interrupt
event is generated.
The device can be set to work in several different power modes. It can be set to
continuously sample the temperature measurements, it can be set to work in the oneshot mode, and it can be set to stay in the shutdown mode. The shutdown mode
consumes the least power, keeping all the internal sections but the communication
section, unpowered. The one-shot mode allows the device to stay in the shutdown
mode, run a single conversion cycle on demand, and the revert back to the shutdown
mode. This allows for a lower power consumption. The design of the Click board™ itself
is such that the thermal radiation from other components, which might affect the
environmental temperature readings of the sensor, is reduced. The onboard SMD
jumper labeled as VCC SEL allows voltage selection for interfacing with both 3.3V and
5V MCUs, while the ADDR SEL jumper allows the user to switch between two different
I2C addresses.
SPECIFICATIONS
Type
Temperature & humidity
Applications
It can be used for the PC case temperature monitoring, office
equipment, and entertainment systems thermal monitoring,
general purpose thermal measurement, etc.
On-board
modules
ADT7420, a high accuracy temperature sensor IC with the 2-Wire
interface, from Analog Devices.
Key Features
Ultralow temperature drift, low power consumption, programmable
interrupt engine, compact sensor size, interrupt and critical
temperature output pins, and more.
Interface
I2C
Input Voltage
3.3V or 5V
Click board
size
S (28.6 x 25.4 mm)
PINOUT DIAGRAM
This table shows how the pinout on Thermo 12 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
CT
3
CS
RX
14
NC
NC
4
SCK
TX
13
NC
NC
5
MISO
SCL
12
SCL
I2C Clock
NC
6
MOSI
SDA
11
SDA
I2C Data
Power Supply
3.3V
7
3.3V
5V
10
+5V
Power
Supply
Ground
GND
8
GND
GND
9
GND
Ground
Critical Overtemperature
Indicator
Interrupt
output
ONBOARD SETTINGS AND INDICATORS
Label
Name
Default
Description
JP1
VCC SEL
Left
Power supply voltage selection: left position 3V3,
right position 5V
JP2
ADDR SEL
Left
I2C address selection: left position 0, right position1
LD1
PWR
-
Power LED indicator
THERMO 12 CLICK ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Description
Min
Typ
Temperature Range (accuracy ±0.25˚C)
-20
-
+105
°C
Temperature Range (accuracy ±0.2˚C)
-10
-
+85
°C
0
-
400
kHz
Communication speed
Max
Unit
SOFTWARE SUPPORT
We provide a library for the Thermo 12 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
Library contains functions for:
•
getting INT and CS pin states
•
getting and setting register values
•
issuing soft reset command
•
getting temperature value
•
getting status register value
•
setting high, low and critical threshold values
•
setting hysteresis value
•
evice initialization.
Key functions:
•
•
•
uint8_t thermo12_init(void) - initializes the device.
uint8_t thermo12_getStatus(void) - returns status register value.
float thermo12_getTemperature(void) - returns temperature value.
Examples description
The application is composed of the three sections :
•
System Initialization - Initializes INT pin, CS pin, I2C module and LOG module.
•
Application Initialization - Initializes I2C driver, click board and sets thresholds.
•
Application Task - Checks status register value, logs messages and temperature value.
void applicationTask( )
{
status_register = thermo12_getStatus( );
if (( status_register & _THERMO12_RDY_MASK ) == _THERMO12_RDY_MASK )
{
mikrobus_logWrite( "> Temperature : normal", _LOG_LINE );
temperature = thermo12_getTemperature( );
FloatToStr( temperature, text );
mikrobus_logWrite( "> Temperature : ", _LOG_TEXT );
mikrobus_logWrite( text, _LOG_TEXT );
mikrobus_logWrite( celsius, _LOG_LINE );
Delay_ms(500);
}
if (( status_register & _THERMO12_T_LOW_MASK ) == _THERMO12_T_LOW_MASK )
{
mikrobus_logWrite( "> Temperature : low", _LOG_LINE );
temperature = thermo12_getTemperature( );
FloatToStr( temperature, text );
mikrobus_logWrite( "> Temperature : ", _LOG_TEXT );
mikrobus_logWrite( text, _LOG_TEXT );
mikrobus_logWrite( celsius, _LOG_LINE );
Delay_ms(500);
}
if (( status_register & _THERMO12_T_CRIT_MASK ) == _THERMO12_T_CRIT_MASK )
{
mikrobus_logWrite( "> Temperature : critical", _LOG_LINE );
temperature = thermo12_getTemperature( );
FloatToStr( temperature, text );
mikrobus_logWrite( "> Temperature : ", _LOG_TEXT );
mikrobus_logWrite( text, _LOG_TEXT );
mikrobus_logWrite( celsius, _LOG_LINE );
Delay_ms(500);
}
else if (( status_register & _THERMO12_T_HIGH_MASK ) == _THERMO12_T_HIGH_MASK )
{
mikrobus_logWrite( "> Temperature : high", _LOG_LINE );
temperature = thermo12_getTemperature( );
FloatToStr( temperature, text );
mikrobus_logWrite( "> Temperature : ", _LOG_TEXT );
mikrobus_logWrite( text, _LOG_TEXT );
mikrobus_logWrite( celsius, _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:
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I2C
UART
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.
DOWNLOADS
mikroBUS™ Standard specification
LibStock: mikroSDK
Click board catalog
Thermo 12 click Libstock
Thermo 12 click 2D and 3D files
Thermo 12 click schematic
ADT7420 datasheet
https://www.mikroe.com/thermo-12-click/7-3-19