6 * Analog Devices ADT7470
10 Addresses scanned: I2C 0x2C, 0x2E, 0x2F
12 Datasheet: Publicly available at the Analog Devices website
14 Author: Darrick J. Wong
19 This driver implements support for the Analog Devices ADT7470 chip. There may
20 be other chips that implement this interface.
22 The ADT7470 uses the 2-wire interface compatible with the SMBus 2.0
23 specification. Using an analog to digital converter it measures up to ten (10)
24 external temperatures. It has four (4) 16-bit counters for measuring fan speed.
25 There are four (4) PWM outputs that can be used to control fan speed.
27 A sophisticated control system for the PWM outputs is designed into the ADT7470
28 that allows fan speed to be adjusted automatically based on any of the ten
29 temperature sensors. Each PWM output is individually adjustable and
30 programmable. Once configured, the ADT7470 will adjust the PWM outputs in
31 response to the measured temperatures with further host intervention. This
32 feature can also be disabled for manual control of the PWM's.
34 Each of the measured inputs (temperature, fan speed) has corresponding high/low
35 limit values. The ADT7470 will signal an ALARM if any measured value exceeds
38 The ADT7470 samples all inputs continuously. A kernel thread is started up for
39 the purpose of periodically querying the temperature sensors, thus allowing the
40 automatic fan pwm control to set the fan speed. The driver will not read the
41 registers more often than once every 5 seconds. Further, configuration data is
42 only read once per minute.
47 The ADT7470 has a 8-bit ADC and is capable of measuring temperatures with 1
50 The Analog Devices datasheet is very detailed and describes a procedure for
51 determining an optimal configuration for the automatic PWM control.
56 Besides standard interfaces driver adds the following:
60 * pwm#_auto_point1_pwm and pwm#_auto_point1_temp and
61 * pwm#_auto_point2_pwm and pwm#_auto_point2_temp -
63 - point1: Set the pwm speed at a lower temperature bound.
64 - point2: Set the pwm speed at a higher temperature bound.
66 The ADT7470 will scale the pwm between the lower and higher pwm speed when
67 the temperature is between the two temperature boundaries. PWM values range
68 from 0 (off) to 255 (full speed). Fan speed will be set to maximum when the
69 temperature sensor associated with the PWM control exceeds
70 pwm#_auto_point2_temp.
72 The driver also allows control of the PWM frequency:
76 The PWM frequency is rounded to the nearest one of:
92 The temperature inputs no longer need to be read periodically from userspace in
93 order for the automatic pwm algorithm to run. This was the case for earlier
94 versions of the driver.