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  • Using the TMP100 series of I2C temperature sensor from Texas Instruments

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    aberco
    Published on - 21st September 2010 16:30  Number of Views: 14027  
    Here is bits and pieces of code to help in interfacing a TMP100 series temperature sensor to your PIC project! They are nice and easy to use sensors, with 2 to 0.5°C accuracy and possibility of triggering alarms on low/high temp limit (TMP101). They are however quite small, in SOT23-6 package.



    Wire SDA and SDC to your pic (using 4.7k pullups) and ground A0 and A1 (or change the address in the code). For TMP101, A1 is replaced by ALERT which you can wire to an interrupt pin of the PIC.

    When powered up, the TMP100 does automatic sampling. The following line can be sent to configure the sensor to 12bit resolution:
    Code:
    SCLpin VAR PORTB.6
SDApin VAR PORTB.4
TempH VAR Byte
TempL VAR Byte

I2CWRITE SDApin,SCLpin,$90,$01,[%01100100] 'Set continuous sampling at 12bit resolution

I2CREAD SDApin,SCLpin,$90,$00,[TempH,TempL] 'Read temperature sample
    To save power between samples, the temperature sensor can be set to power off, and conversion can be triggered by sending a one shot sample request.
    Code:
    SCLpin VAR PORTB.6
SDApin VAR PORTB.4
TempH VAR Byte
TempL VAR Byte

I2CWRITE SDApin,SCLpin,$90,$01,[%01100101] 'Set 12 bit resolution, turn sensor off

SamplingLoop:
I2CWRITE SDApin,SCLpin,$90,$01,[%11100101] 'one-shot sample
PAUSE 350
I2CREAD SDApin,SCLpin,$90,$00,[TempH,TempL] 'Read temperature sample
GOTO SamplingLoop
    Remember that a 12bit conversion does take 320ms to complete. Therefore after 1 shot sampling, you need to wait or you will read the previous value.

    Temperature is read as a 16 bit value (TempH being MSB and TempL LSB). Here is the conversion routine to display the value on LCD (initialize your LCD first!):
    Code:
    TempSign VAR Byte
TempDec VAR Word

'*******************************************************
'Convert temperature to LCD
'*******************************************************
ConvertTemp:

IF TempH.7 = 1 THEN
        TempSign = "-"
        TempL = TempL ^ %11110000 'bitwise invert on the 4 MSB
        TempL = TempL + 16 'adding 1 temperature unit
        TempH = TempH ^ %11111111 'bitwise invert 
        IF TempL = 0 THEN
                TempH  = TempH + 1
        ENDIF 
ELSE
        TempSign = "+"
ENDIF

TempDec = 0
IF TempL.7 = 1 THEN TempDec = 5000
IF TempL.6 = 1 THEN TempDec = TempDec + 2500
IF TempL.5 = 1 THEN TempDec = TempDec + 1250
IF TempL.4 = 1 THEN TempDec = TempDec + 625

LCDOUT $FE,1, TempSign, #TempH, ".", #TempDec DIG 3, #TempDec DIG 2, #TempDec DIG 1, #TempDec DIG 0, "°C"

RETURN
    Hope it will help, enjoy!
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