Timeline for LTC2485 I2C Data Format
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| Feb 22, 2014 at 22:27 | comment | added | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | Lots of \$\Delta\Sigma \$ converters have the garbage below LSB output bits provided. They're almost meaningless. Maybe useful for a random number generator seed or something like that. | |
| Feb 22, 2014 at 22:24 | comment | added | FredP | As @Spehro Pefhany seems to confirm, it is noise, I would not worry about it. I'm not fluent in I2C, but if it uses bytes, and the chip uses a total of 26bits (24bits for data + those 2 extra bits for sign and MSB) they had to put these 6 bits as padding anyway. | |
| Feb 22, 2014 at 22:19 | history | edited | FredP | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 22, 2014 at 22:14 | comment | added | PeterG | Thank you for your reply. Well, I am also lost with the LSB. They seem to use 31 bits in the code example… And when reading data from the chip, the LSB contains values. | |
| Feb 22, 2014 at 22:08 | history | answered | FredP | CC BY-SA 3.0 |