[email protected] wrote:
> Is there any reason for using the AINn files in /sys/devices/ocp.3/helper.15
> rather than the in_voltageN_raw files in /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0 ?
> 
> I.e. is there any (useful) processing done between the raw 12-bit
> integer value in the raw file and the integer 'millivolts' value in
> the AINn values?
> 
> As far as I can see one just loses a bit or two of resolution by using
> the AINn values.  The fact that it gives the input voltage in mV is
> pretty useless as one is never actually measuring the voltage at the
> input, it's almost bound to be scaled in some sort of fashion. So
> taking the AINn value and mutiplying it by some factor to give the
> required result is no different from multiplying the raw value by a
> different factor to give the same result (except the loss of some
> resolution).
> 
> That is, of couse, unless some sort of processing (smoothing, time
> weighted average, etc.) is done between the raw value and the AINn
> value.
> 
No answer anyone?

OK, can anyone tell me how/where the values in the AINn files at
/sys/devices/ocp.3/helper.15 are produced?  There must presumably be a
little bit of code somewhere doing it.

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Chris Green
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