5 * Analog Devices ADT7470
7 Addresses scanned: I2C 0x2C, 0x2E, 0x2F
8 Datasheet: Publicly available at the Analog Devices website
10 Author: Darrick J. Wong
15 This driver implements support for the Analog Devices ADT7470 chip. There may
16 be other chips that implement this interface.
18 The ADT7470 uses the 2-wire interface compatible with the SMBus 2.0
19 specification. Using an analog to digital converter it measures up to ten (10)
20 external temperatures. It has four (4) 16-bit counters for measuring fan speed.
21 There are four (4) PWM outputs that can be used to control fan speed.
23 A sophisticated control system for the PWM outputs is designed into the ADT7470
24 that allows fan speed to be adjusted automatically based on any of the ten
25 temperature sensors. Each PWM output is individually adjustable and
26 programmable. Once configured, the ADT7470 will adjust the PWM outputs in
27 response to the measured temperatures with further host intervention. This
28 feature can also be disabled for manual control of the PWM's.
30 Each of the measured inputs (temperature, fan speed) has corresponding high/low
31 limit values. The ADT7470 will signal an ALARM if any measured value exceeds
34 The ADT7470 samples all inputs continuously. A kernel thread is started up for
35 the purpose of periodically querying the temperature sensors, thus allowing the
36 automatic fan pwm control to set the fan speed. The driver will not read the
37 registers more often than once every 5 seconds. Further, configuration data is
38 only read once per minute.
43 The ADT7470 has a 8-bit ADC and is capable of measuring temperatures with 1
46 The Analog Devices datasheet is very detailed and describes a procedure for
47 determining an optimal configuration for the automatic PWM control.
52 Besides standard interfaces driver adds the following:
56 * pwm#_auto_point1_pwm and pwm#_auto_point1_temp and
57 * pwm#_auto_point2_pwm and pwm#_auto_point2_temp -
59 point1: Set the pwm speed at a lower temperature bound.
60 point2: Set the pwm speed at a higher temperature bound.
62 The ADT7470 will scale the pwm between the lower and higher pwm speed when
63 the temperature is between the two temperature boundaries. PWM values range
64 from 0 (off) to 255 (full speed). Fan speed will be set to maximum when the
65 temperature sensor associated with the PWM control exceeds
66 pwm#_auto_point2_temp.
71 The temperature inputs no longer need to be read periodically from userspace in
72 order for the automatic pwm algorithm to run. This was the case for earlier
73 versions of the driver.