The Analog Devices Inc. AD7606 (and similar chips) are complex ADCs that will benefit from a detailed driver documentation. This documents the current features supported by the driver. Signed-off-by: Guillaume Stols <gstols@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/iio/ad7606.rst | 143 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 143 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/iio/ad7606.rst b/Documentation/iio/ad7606.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..270a49aae685 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/iio/ad7606.rst @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only + +============= +AD7606 driver +============= + +ADC driver for Analog Devices Inc. AD7606 and similar devices. The module name +is ``ad7606``. + +Supported devices +================= + +The following chips are supported by this driver: + +* `AD7605 <https://www.analog.com/en/products/ad7605.html>`_ +* `AD7606 <https://www.analog.com/en/products/ad7606.html>`_ +* `AD7606B <https://www.analog.com/en/products/ad7606b.html>`_ +* `AD7616 <https://www.analog.com/en/products/ad7616.html>`_ + +Supported features +================== + +SPI wiring modes +---------------- + +ad7606x ADCs can output data on several SDO lines (1/2/4/8). The driver +currently supports only 1 SDO line. + +Parallel wiring mode +-------------------- + +AD7606x ADC have also a parallel interface, with 16 lines (that can be reduced +to 8 in byte mode). The parallel interface is selected by declaring the device +as platform in the device tree (with no io-backends node defined, see below). + +IIO-backend mode +---------------- + +This mode allows to reach the best sample rates, but it requires an external +hardware (eg HDL or APU) to handle the low level communication. +The backend mode is enabled when through the definition of the "io-backends" +property in the device tree. + +The reference configuration for the current implementation of IIO-backend mode +is the HDL reference provided by ADI: +https://wiki.analog.com/resources/eval/user-guides/ad7606x-fmc/hdl + +This implementation embeds an IIO-backend compatible IP (adi-axi-adc) and a PWM +connected to the conversion trigger pin. + ++---+ +---------------------------- +| | +-------+ |AD76xx +| A | controls | | | +| D |-------------->| PWM |-------------->| cnvst +| 7 | | | | +| 6 | +-------+ | +| 0 | controls +-----------+-----------+ | +| 6 |---------->| | |<--| frstdata +| | | Backend | Backend |<--| busy +| D | | Driver | | | +| R | | | |-->| clk +| I | requests |+---------+| DMA | | +| V |----------->| Buffer ||<---- |<=>| DATA +| E | |+---------+| | | +| R | +-----------+-----------+ | +| |-------------------------------------->| reset/configuration gpios ++---+ +----------------------------- + + +Software and hardware modes +--------------------------- + +While all the AD7606 series parts can be configured using GPIOs, some of them +can be configured using register. + +The chips that support software mode have more values available for configuring +the device, as well as more settings, and allow to control the range and +calibration per channel. + +The following settings are available per channel in software mode: + - Scale + +Also, there is a broader choice of oversampling ratios in software mode. + +Conversion triggering +--------------------- + +The conversion can be triggered by two distinct ways: + + - A GPIO is connected to the conversion trigger pin, and this GPIO is controlled + by the driver directly. In this configuration, the driver sets back the + conversion trigger pin to high as soon as it has read all the conversions. + + - An external source is connected to the conversion trigger pin. In the + current implementation, it must be a PWM. In this configuration, the driver + does not control directly the conversion trigger pin. Instead, it can + control the PWM's frequency. This trigger is enabled only for iio-backend. + +Reference voltage +----------------- + +2 possible reference voltage sources are supported: + + - Internal reference (2.5V) + - External reference (2.5V) + +The source is determined by the device tree. If ``refin-supply`` is present, +then the external reference is used, otherwise the internal reference is used. + +Oversampling +------------ + +This family supports oversampling to improve SNR. +In software mode, the following ratios are available: +1 (oversampling disabled)/2/4/8/16/32/64/128/256. + +Unimplemented features +---------------------- + +- 2/4/8 SDO lines +- CRC indication +- Calibration + +Device buffers +============== + +IIO triggered buffer +-------------------- + +This driver supports IIO triggered buffers, with a "built in" trigger, i.e the +trigger is allocated and linked by the driver, and a new conversion is triggered +as soon as the samples are transferred, and a timestamp channel is added to make +up for the potential jitter induced by the delays in the interrupt handling. + +IIO backend buffer +------------------ + +When IIO backend is used, the trigger is not needed, and the sample rate is +considered as stable, hence there is no timestamp channel. The communication is +delegated to an external logic, called a backend, and the backend's driver +handles the buffer. When this mode is enabled, the driver cannot control the +conversion pin, because the busy pin is bound to the backend. + -- 2.34.1
