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ECost
ECost
Associate III
July 5, 2019
Question

Temperature of the internal temperature sensor

  • July 5, 2019
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Using STM32F0308C on a custom board. When I read the temperature sensor I am getting 1765 and the TS_CAL value is 1778.

Supply voltage is 3.3V, VREF_INT is 1524 and I am reading 1525 on the internal reference. So I assume I must apply a 1524/1525 correction to the temperature reading which gives me 1777. This must correspond approximately to 29.4°C if I did the math right.

However it is very cold today (less than 20°C in the room) so my question is if the internal temperature sensor is always this higher. Processor is running at 8MHz.

Summarizing:

VDD/VDDA: 3.3V

VREF_INT: 1524

TS_CAL: 1775

Vref reading: 1525

Temp reading: 1778

Temp reading corrected: 1777

Temperature: 29.4°C

Same firmware running on a STM32F0308 discovery board gives:

VDD/VDDA: 3.0V

VREF_INT: 1531

TS_CAL: 1768

Vref reading: 1704

Temp reading: 1989

Temp reading corrected: 1787

Temperature: 26.4°C

So the question is is the temperature I get makes sense, why there is this 3°C discrepancy and if it makes sense it being several °C above the ambient temperature when the microcontroller has just been powered on.

 EDIT: before anybody asks, using ADC 14MHz with the highest sampling time (~17us).

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S.Ma
S.Ma
Principal
July 5, 2019

Well, I would use VRef to calculate back Vdda, then translate the ADC Temp value to what it would be at 3.0V and compare it with the calibrated 2 temperature points of 30 and 110 or 125 degrees (chip dependent, read the datasheet).

Now this is the localized silicon temperature within the package, which has some self heating.

I do beleive the existing ADC Temp/Vref examples are not going to this extend, hence so many questions like this on the forum....

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