John, also Audry asked what the values of that device tree fragment mean,
not what the code was. As in Audry wants and explanation of the values:

ti,chan-step-avg = <0x16 0x16 0x16 0x16 0x16 0x16 0x16>;
ti,chan-step-opendelay = <0x98 0x98 0x98 0x98 0x98 0x98 0x98>;
ti,chan-step-sampledelay = <0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0>;

As far as I can tell. Quite honestly I could use that explanation myself.
But step avg can be a value 0-16 if memory serves from reading the TRM, I'm
just not clear exactly on what step avg actually does. . . . the
explanation in the TRM is very jumbled / confusing.


On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:58 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:

> Now if you want to convey more information that is actually *useful* to
> anyone reading this post. You can say that both voltageX_raw, and
> iio:deviceX are buffers.
>
> With voltageX_raw being a single value buffer that gets updated only once
> every open() call on it's file descriptor.
>
> Where iio:deviceX is a buffer, defined in size by the value set in
> /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio\:device0/buffer/length
>
> More *useful* information can be found here:
> http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/AM335x_ADC_Driver's_Guide. Then
> if you want even more information still, googling "iio" will produce a lot
> of information. Much of it not so useful. At least for our use case, the
> Beaglebone.
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:47 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> what the hell does what you've said there even mean John ? voltagex_raw
>> is one shot mode, iio:deviceX is continuous mode.
>>
>> What you said above only serves to confuse the situation.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:32 AM, John Syne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> /*
>>>  * Copyright (C) 2012 Texas Instruments Incorporated -
>>> http://www.ti.com/
>>>  *
>>>  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>>>  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
>>>  * published by the Free Software Foundation.
>>>  */
>>> /dts-v1/;
>>> /plugin/;
>>>
>>> / {
>>> compatible = "ti,beaglebone", "ti,beaglebone-black",
>>> "ti,beaglebone-green";
>>>
>>> /* identification */
>>> part-number = "BB-ADC";
>>> version = "00A0";
>>>
>>> /* state the resources this cape uses */
>>> exclusive-use =
>>> /* the pin header uses */
>>> "P9.31", /* AIN0 */
>>> "P9.40", /* AIN1 */
>>> "P9.37", /* AIN2 */
>>> "P9.38", /* AIN3 */
>>> "P9.33", /* AIN4 */
>>> "P9.36", /* AIN5 */
>>> "P9.35", /* AIN6 */
>>> /* the hardware ip uses */
>>> "tscadc";
>>>
>>> fragment@0 {
>>> target = <&tscadc>;
>>> __overlay__ {
>>>
>>> status = "okay";
>>> adc {
>>> ti,adc-channels = <0 1 2 3 4 5 6>;
>>> ti,chan-step-avg = <0x16 0x16 0x16 0x16 0x16 0x16 0x16>;
>>> ti,chan-step-opendelay = <0x98 0x98 0x98 0x98 0x98 0x98 0x98>;
>>> ti,chan-step-sampledelay = <0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0>;
>>> };
>>> };
>>> };
>>> };
>>>
>>> Reading from /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_voltage0_raw is reading
>>> and attribute of the IIO driver. Reading from /dev/iio:device0 is reading
>>> from the same IIO driver, but in this case you are reading from the buffer
>>> which stores samples defined in the DT overlay above.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 8, 2016, at 9:51 PM, Audrey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply John. Could you perhaps explain how to modify the
>>> oversample, open delay time, and sample time in greater detail in the
>>> BB-ADC overlay? I do not see these variables in the dto in github (
>>> https://github.com/beagleboard/devicetree-source/blob/master/arch/arm/boot/dts/BB-ADC-00A0.dts).
>>> Also, what value can/should I change them to?
>>>
>>> So just to clarify, reading from
>>> /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_voltage0_raw reads attributes using
>>> sysfs, while reading from /dev/iio:device0 reads the values using IIO? Also
>>> another conceptual question, can you explain what exactly is
>>> in_voltage0_raw and iio:device0? I know it's not a folder, and I interact
>>> with it by using cat. So is it just like a text file or something?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> On Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 2:15:17 PM UTC-5, john3909 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That is because you are doing this wrong. Reading attributes via sysfs
>>>> is slow and not meant for this purpose. With IIO, you enable a scan element
>>>> (echo 1 > in_voltage0_en) and then you enable the buffer (echo 1 >
>>>> buffer/enable)and then you read the values from /dev/iio:device0. In the
>>>> BB-ADC overlay, you can modify the scan update time by modifying the
>>>> Oversample (default is 16x), Open Delay time (default is 0x98) and sample
>>>> time (default is 1). Now the IIO ADC driver captures samples using
>>>> interrupts which isn’t ideal, but it will capture samples at a much higher
>>>> rate than can be read from sysfs. If you want to capture at full speed, the
>>>> driver needs to be updated to use DMA.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 6, 2016, at 12:19 AM, Audrey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Where can I find it (and set it)?
>>>>
>>>> I'm right now trying to collect voltage readings using beaglebone's
>>>> internal adc using a bash script and a while loop. Right now the data
>>>> collection is clocking at around 33 microseconds, but I know that the
>>>> internal adc should be able to collect data as fast as 5 microseconds. What
>>>> should I do to make that happen? Is the problem with making while loops
>>>> move faster, or is it about setting the adc configurations?
>>>>
>>>> This is my bash script:
>>>>
>>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>>
>>>> #echo cape-bone-iio > /sys/devices/bone_capemgr.*/slots
>>>>
>>>> t0=$(date +%s%6N)
>>>>
>>>> while true; do
>>>>    t1=$(date +%s%6N)
>>>>    rawVal=$(cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_voltage0_raw)
>>>>    voltage=$(bc -l <<< $rawVal/4095*1.8)
>>>>    time=$(expr $t1 - $t0)
>>>>    echo $time $voltage
>>>> done
>>>>
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