8.2.1.1 Design Requirements

The LM75 requires a positive supply voltage of 2.7 V to 5.5 V to be applied between +Vs and GND. For best results, bypass capacitors of 100 nF and 10 µF are recommended. Pull-up resistors of 10 kΩ are required on SCL and SDA.

8.2.1.2 Detailed Design Procedure

Accessing the conversion result of the LM75 consists of writing an address byte followed by retrieving the corresponding number of data bytes. The first data byte is the most significant byte with the most significant bit first, permitting only as much data as necessary to be read to determine temperature condition. For instance, if the first four bits of the temperature data indicates an overtemperature condition, the host processor could immediately take action to remedy the excessive temperatures. At the end of a read, the LM75 can accept either Acknowledge or No Acknowledge from the Master (No Acknowledge is typically used as a signal for the slave that the Master has read its last byte). Temperature data is two's complement format and one LSB is equivalent to 0.5°C.

8.2.1.3 Application Curve

Figure 13. Temperature Accuracy