SNIS237A December 2024 – April 2025 TMP118
PRODUCTION DATA
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The device supports 4 different averaging modes to help suppress noise as well as reduce the impact from external temperature fluctuations. The AVG [3:2] bits in the Configuration register can be programmed to control the averaging behavior of the device:
The Back-to-back Averaging feature is useful to reduce the impact from the internal noise sources of the device, such as the device thermal noise and ADC quantization noise. Figure 6-8 and Figure 6-9 illustrates the improved noise performance of the device as a result of turning on the 8x regular averaging. Note Back-to-back Averaging increases the average current consumption of the device due to increased active conversion time in every conversion period.
Averaging can be used in both the continuous conversion mode and the one-shot mode. Note for the two faster conversion rate settings (Conversion_Rate[1:0]= 10b (15.625ms / 64Hz) or 11b (7.812ms / 128Hz)), 4x Averaging and 8x Averaging cannot be applied due to timing violation. Programming the AVG[1:0] setting to 4x Averaging (01b) or 8x Averaging (10b) causes the device to automatically revert to the 1Hz conversion rate. Using the Moving 4x Averaging (AVG[1:0]= 11b) setting is recommended if averaging feature is desired for the two faster conversion rate settings.