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| 2 | AD525x Digital Potentiometers |
| 3 | --------------------------------- |
| 4 | |
| 5 | The ad525x_dpot driver exports a simple sysfs interface. This allows you to |
| 6 | work with the immediate resistance settings as well as update the saved startup |
| 7 | settings. Access to the factory programmed tolerance is also provided, but |
| 8 | interpretation of this settings is required by the end application according to |
| 9 | the specific part in use. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | --------- |
| 12 | Files |
| 13 | --------- |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Each dpot device will have a set of eeprom, rdac, and tolerance files. How |
| 16 | many depends on the actual part you have, as will the range of allowed values. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | The eeprom files are used to program the startup value of the device. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | The rdac files are used to program the immediate value of the device. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | The tolerance files are the read-only factory programmed tolerance settings |
| 23 | and may vary greatly on a part-by-part basis. For exact interpretation of |
| 24 | this field, please consult the datasheet for your part. This is presented |
| 25 | as a hex file for easier parsing. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | ----------- |
| 28 | Example |
| 29 | ----------- |
| 30 | |
| 31 | Locate the device in your sysfs tree. This is probably easiest by going into |
| 32 | the common i2c directory and locating the device by the i2c slave address. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | # ls /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ |
| 35 | 0-0022 0-0027 0-002f |
| 36 | |
| 37 | So assuming the device in question is on the first i2c bus and has the slave |
| 38 | address of 0x2f, we descend (unrelated sysfs entries have been trimmed). |
| 39 | |
| 40 | # ls /sys/bus/i2c/devices/0-002f/ |
| 41 | eeprom0 rdac0 tolerance0 |
| 42 | |
| 43 | You can use simple reads/writes to access these files: |
| 44 | |
| 45 | # cd /sys/bus/i2c/devices/0-002f/ |
| 46 | |
| 47 | # cat eeprom0 |
| 48 | 0 |
| 49 | # echo 10 > eeprom0 |
| 50 | # cat eeprom0 |
| 51 | 10 |
| 52 | |
| 53 | # cat rdac0 |
| 54 | 5 |
| 55 | # echo 3 > rdac0 |
| 56 | # cat rdac0 |
| 57 | 3 |