Hi,
I received a question from a customer of mine. They have a question on the interpretation of the datasheet of the TMP121, SPI temperature sensor.
In the table of the Electrical Specifications, page 3, it states a min and max time for the conversion time. These are shown in Figure 2 which results in about 50% cs_n high and low.
When reading the section "Communicating with the tmp121” on page 5, it looks like you can divert from that. You could for example keep cs_n high for a longer time. The only thing, the sensor then goes into idle.
Would the following implementation also work?
Conversion period of 500ms. A conversion time of more than 499 ms (so more than 320 max).
cs_n is kept low for only 15.5 us, to read out the data with a sck clock of1000 ns (100 ns min). See screenshot below:
