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Atmel ARM processors-- are they temp sensor configured?


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#1 Dr Who

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Posted 05 October 2015 - 11:56 PM

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Next door, the folks in the Arduino shops made an  interesting discovery sometime ago. Basically their AVR parts contain a rudimentary temperature sensor. It's not enough to for example give someone a good idea of how warm the device is getting, but it can be used for such things such as feeding the entropy pools for the thing's random number generator.

 

Oddly enough the Galileo boards also include one, probably to maintain compatibility with sketches from other sources.

 

Would anyone more familiar with the processor used on the earlier boards know if the designers included that feature, and if its accessible via the libraries and routines from the Micro Dot Net Framework we've all downloaded and installed?

 

Obviously an example to test the sensor would be a good thing, but, ah, the sketch that an enterprising individual next door wrote is written in a language that's rather foreign to the gear over here.



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Posted 06 October 2015 - 01:49 AM

Hey Dr Who,

On-chip temp sensors aren't part of the core NETMF runtime.

For commercial applications, it can be cool to know what the chip's temperature is, for sure. [No pun intended.]

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Posted 06 October 2015 - 02:46 AM

Hey Dr Who,

On-chip temp sensors aren't part of the core NETMF runtime.

For commercial applications, it can be cool to know what the chip's temperature is, for sure. [No pun intended.]

Chris

 

Indeed. Its something of a useful oddity next door. I suspect that if it does exist on the ATMEL ARM chips, we'd need to write our routines to support them, and add it to the runtime.

 

But what about the three lost individuals outside? (Think of an earlier member of the Doctor Who crowd and his fellow travelers.)



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Posted 14 October 2015 - 03:17 AM

Indeed. Its something of a useful oddity next door. I suspect that if it does exist on the ATMEL ARM chips, we'd need to write our routines to support them, and add it to the runtime.

 

But what about the three lost individuals outside? (Think of an earlier member of the Doctor Who crowd and his fellow travelers.)

 

Hello!

Okay let's leave it at that, but how hard would it be to build a custom firmware image for the thing?



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