5 * Analog Devices ADT7473
7 Addresses scanned: I2C 0x2C, 0x2D, 0x2E
8 Datasheet: Publicly available at the Analog Devices website
10 Author: Darrick J. Wong
15 This driver implements support for the Analog Devices ADT7473 chip family.
17 The ADT7473 uses the 2-wire interface compatible with the SMBUS 2.0
18 specification. Using an analog to digital converter it measures three (3)
19 temperatures and two (2) voltages. It has four (4) 16-bit counters for
20 measuring fan speed. There are three (3) PWM outputs that can be used
23 A sophisticated control system for the PWM outputs is designed into the
24 ADT7473 that allows fan speed to be adjusted automatically based on any of the
25 three temperature sensors. Each PWM output is individually adjustable and
26 programmable. Once configured, the ADT7473 will adjust the PWM outputs in
27 response to the measured temperatures without further host intervention.
28 This feature can also be disabled for manual control of the PWM's.
30 Each of the measured inputs (voltage, temperature, fan speed) has
31 corresponding high/low limit values. The ADT7473 will signal an ALARM if
32 any measured value exceeds either limit.
34 The ADT7473 samples all inputs continuously. The driver will not read
35 the registers more often than once every other second. Further,
36 configuration data is only read once per minute.
41 The ADT7473 have a 10-bit ADC and can therefore measure temperatures
42 with 0.25 degC resolution. Temperature readings can be configured either
43 for twos complement format or "Offset 64" format, wherein 63 is subtracted
44 from the raw value to get the temperature value.
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 temp#_auto_point1_temp and
57 * pwm#_auto_point2_pwm and temp#_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 ADT7473 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 temp#_max.
70 The NVIDIA binary driver presents an ADT7473 chip via an on-card i2c bus.
71 Unfortunately, they fail to set the i2c adapter class, so this driver may
72 fail to find the chip until the nvidia driver is patched.