ZHCSH75A September 2017 – December 2017 ADS7142
PRODUCTION DATA.
The High Precision Mode increases the accuracy of the data measurement to 16-bit accuracy. This is useful for applications where the level of precision required to accurately measure the sensor output needs to be higher than 12 bits. Applications that could take advantage of this type of functionality include gas detectors, air quality testers, water quality testers, and so on.
For this mode, Set OPMODE_SEL register to 111b. In this mode, the device starts converting and starts accumulating the conversion results in an accumulator on setting the SEQ_START bit. The device stops accumulating the conversion results in accumulator after 16 conversions or when the SEQ_ABORT bit is set. Upon accumulating 16 twelve bit conversions, the accumulator contains one 16 bit conversion result. The device has an accumulator for each channel and the device accumulates conversion results from each channel into the respective accumulator. If the operation of the device is aborted in high precision mode before the BUSY/RDY pin goes low, the device provides invalid data. In this mode, on providing a device address and read bit for reading data buffer (Figure 46), the device provides zeroes as output. In this mode, the BUSY/RDY can be used to wake up the MCU or host from sleep or hibernation on completion of accumulation. The steps for configuring the device into High Precision Mode are illustrated in Figure 66 .
It is recommended to abort the present sequence by setting the SEQ_ABORT bit before changing the device operation mode or device configuration.
Figure 67 illustrates the accumulation of conversion results in high precision mode.