On 17 March 2015 at 11:38, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:23:33AM +0100, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>> On 16 March 2015 at 16:12, Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> > * Try to set the voltage to exactly 1,200,000 uV (1.2V).
>> > * If you can't get 1.2V exactly, a tolerance ("tol") of 100,000 uV
>> > (.1V) is OK.
>> > * In other words, 1.1V - 1.3V are OK, but aim for 1.2V
>
>> So what happens in the case when 1.3V and 1.1V, but not 1.2V. Which
>> value will be used? Is that algorithm defined by the regulator core or
>> does it depend per regulator implementation?
>
> It's done in the core. It first tries to hit the target voltage to the
> maximum (picking the lowest voltage in that range) then tries to pick
> the lowest voltage to the target, though that's an implementation detail
> and we really should be trying to get as close as possible to the
> target. We don't do that yet because it can be expensive to work out so
> we do the current thing which is cheap and mostly good enough.
Okay, so that seems to work well for our 1.1V->1.3V case.
Thanks!
Kind regards
Uffe
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