ZHCSH75A September 2017 – December 2017 ADS7142
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In Autonomous Mode, the device can be programmed to monitor the voltage applied on the analog input pins of the device and generate a signal on the ALERT pin when the programmable high or low threshold values are crossed and store the conversion results in the data buffer before or after the crossing a threshold or before setting the SEQ_ABORT bit (Start Burst) or after setting the START_SEQUENCE bit.
In Autonomous mode, the device generates the start of conversion using the internal oscillator. The first start of conversion must be provided by the host and the device generates the subsequent start of conversions.
After configuring the operation mode to autonomous mode (Set OPMODE_SEL register to 110b) as illustrated in Figure 54, steps for operating the device to be in different autonomous modes are illustrated in Figure 57
TI recommends aborting the present sequence by setting the SEQ_ABORT bit before changing the device operation mode or device configuration.