Datasheet
Table Of Contents
- FEATURES
- Applications
- Key Specifications
- DESCRIPTION
- Absolute Maximum Ratings
- Operating Ratings
- Temperature-to-Digital Converter Characteristics
- Logic Electrical Characteristics
- SMBus DIGITAL SWITCHING CHARACTERISTICS
- Functional Description
- CONVERSION SEQUENCE
- THE ALERT OUTPUT
- T_CRIT_A OUTPUT and T_CRIT LIMIT
- POWER ON RESET DEFAULT STATES
- SMBus INTERFACE
- TEMPERATURE DATA FORMAT
- OPEN-DRAIN OUTPUTS
- DIODE FAULT DETECTION
- COMMUNICATING with the LM90
- SERIAL INTERFACE RESET
- DIGITAL FILTER
- Fault Queue
- One-Shot Register
- LM90 REGISTERS
- COMMAND REGISTER
- LOCAL and REMOTE TEMPERATURE REGISTERS (LT, RTHB, RTLB)
- STATUS REGISTER (SR)
- CONFIGURATION REGISTER
- CONVERSION RATE REGISTER
- LOCAL and REMOTE HIGH SETPOINT REGISTERS (LHS, RHSHB, and RHSLB)
- LOCAL and REMOTE LOW SETPOINT REGISTERS (LLS, RLSHB, and RLSLB)
- REMOTE TEMPERATURE OFFSET REGISTERS (RTOHB and RTOLB)
- LOCAL and REMOTE T_CRIT REGISTERS (RCS and LCS)
- T_CRIT HYSTERESIS REGISTER (TH)
- FILTER and ALERT CONFIGURE REGISTER
- MANUFACTURERS ID REGISTER
- DIE REVISION CODE REGISTER
- Application Hints
- Revision History

LM90
SNIS126A –MAY 2004–REVISED MARCH 2013
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Fault Queue
In order to suppress erroneous ALERT or T_CRIT triggering the LM90 incorporates a Fault Queue. The Fault
Queue acts to insure a remote temperature measurement is genuinely beyond a HIGH, LOW or T_CRIT setpoint
by not triggering until three consecutive out of limit measurements have been made, see Figure 14. The fault
queue defaults off upon power-up and may be activated by setting bit D0 in the Configuration register (09h) to
“1”.
Figure 14. Fault Queue Temperature Response Diagram
One-Shot Register
The One-Shot register is used to initiate a single conversion and comparison cycle when the device is in standby
mode, after which the device returns to standby. This is not a data register and it is the write operation that
causes the one-shot conversion. The data written to this address is irrelevant and is not stored. A zero will
always be read from this register.
LM90 REGISTERS
COMMAND REGISTER
Selects which registers will be read from or written to. Data for this register should be transmitted during the
Command Byte of the SMBus write communication.
P7 P6 P5 P4 P3 P2 P1 P0
Command Select
P0-P7: Command Select
Command Select Address Power On Default State Register Register Function
Name
Read Address Write Address <D7:D0> binary <D7:D0> decimal
<P7:P0> hex <P7:P0> hex
00h NA 0000 0000 0 LT Local Temperature
01h NA 0000 0000 0 RTHB Remote Temperature High Byte
02h NA 0000 0000 0 SR Status Register
03h 09h 0000 0000 0 C Configuration
04h 0Ah 0000 1000 8 (16 conv./sec) CR Conversion Rate
05h 0Bh 0100 0110 70 LHS Local HIGH Setpoint
06h 0Ch 0000 0000 0 LLS Local LOW Setpoint
07h 0Dh 0100 0110 70 RHSHB Remote HIGH Setpoint High Byte
08h 0Eh 0000 0000 0 RLSHB Remote LOW Setpoint High Byte
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