Technical Reference Manual. It can be found at the link I sent you. *"You can read about it in the TRM found at http://www.ti.com/product/am3359 <http://www.ti.com/product/am3359>"*
It describes how the processor works and all the functions of the processor. It has all the addresses for all the internal components. Just do a search for Temperature sensor. Gerald On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Junkytomato <junkytom...@hotmail.com>wrote: > Maybe I should have asked this originally… What does ‘TRM’ mean? > > > > *From:* beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] > *On Behalf Of *Gerald Coley > *Sent:* Friday, November 29, 2013 1:12 PM > *To:* beagleboard@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [beagleboard] Temperature Sensor in my BBB > > > > I do not know how to access it. You can read the TRM and see if there is a > mechanism for accessing it and if so, what the address is. > > > > Gerald > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 3:01 PM, <junkytom...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > It doesn't seem to be my finger heating it up; it hurts after half a > second or so, and I don't think that the human body temperature is enough > to hurt the human body, generally speaking ;). Anyway, do you know how I > can access it? I have a few packages that should be able to read built-in > temperature sensors, but none of them are able to locate it automatically > and I have no idea what to give it for 'Sensor location'. I don't see > anything mounted in /dev/ that could be helpful and I don't know enough > about Linux to know where else it could be. What is the 'location' that I > need to access it? > > > > On Friday, November 29, 2013 2:27:17 PM UTC, Gerald wrote: > > That is normal operation. When you hold your finger on it your skin heats > up making it hot The longer you hold it, the hotter it feels. > > > > The processor has on on-chip temperature sensor. You can read about it in > the TRM found at http://www.ti.com/product/am3359 > > > > Gerald > > > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:49 AM, <junky...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I was using my BBB recently and noticed that it gets pretty hot when it > runs for more than a few minutes (I've never really touched it while it's > on before). It doesn't seem to be a problem, but I was wondering if the BBB > had a built-in temperature sensor. I know some laptops have > internal thermometers, so does the BBB have one? It's meant as a minimal > device, so I would imagine it doesn't, but it would be nice to know if it > does! > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/e4XDrG-9s68/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
