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LM77: correction of "register

PATCH New Michael Renzmann 1 participant 1 message Dec 21, 2005

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Hi Jean.

Quoted 3 lines · Jean Delvare

You seem to think that using more than one bit for sign is odd from National. This is actually the standard way of doing though. Think about it. [...]

Now that you say it: you're absolutely right. And as a result:

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Your patch is probably correct but also needlessly complex. All we really have here is a unsigned vs. signed issue. What about this more simple fix instead?

Tried your patch, with a test program I wrote (testing against the positive and negative temperature values given in the LM77 data sheet) as well as with a live system (only with positive temperature readings, though). The patch works fine, thanks.

Bye, Mike