ARM HOW-TO GUIDE

Interfacing Sensor with

LPC2148 ARM
Contents at a Glance
ARM7 LPC2148 Tyro Board ..............................................3
Temperature Sensor ........................................................3
Interfacing LM35 .............................................................4
Interfacing LM35 with LPC2148 ........................................5
Pin Assignment with LPC2148 ..........................................5
Circuit Diagram to Interface LM35 with LPC2148 ..............6
Source Code ....................................................................6
C Program to read temperature using LPC2148 ................7
Testing the LM35 Based Thermometer with LPC2148 .......9
General Information ...................................................... 10

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ARM7 LPC2148 Tyro Board

The ARM7 LPC2148 Tyro board is specifically designed

to help students to master the required skills in the area of
embedded systems. The kit is designed in such way that all
the possible features of the microcontroller will be easily
used by the students. The kit supports in system
programming (ISP) which is done through serial port.

NXP’s ARM7 (LPC2148), ARM Tyro Kit is proposed to

smooth the progress of developing and debugging of
various designs encompassing of High speed 32-bit
Microcontrollers.

Temperature Sensor

The LM35 series are precision integrated-circuit

temperature sensors, whose output voltage is linearly
proportional to the Celsius (Centigrade) temperature. The
output of sensor converted to digital that easy connecting
with microcontroller.

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Interfacing LM35

Fig. 1 shows how to interface the LM35 to

microcontroller. As you can see the third pin is connected to
GND, the first pin is connected to VCC & the second pin is
connected to the Microcontroller input. Just use single PIN
female to female wire to connect with the leads of LM35
temperature sensor. So when the temperature is sensing, it
give the sensor reading to controller.

Fig. 1 Interfacing LM35 to Microcontroller

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Interfacing LM35 with LPC2148

We now want to read the temperature in LPC2148 Tyro

Board from temperature sensor LM35. The ARM7 LPC2148
Tyro board uses the ADC pin for reading temperature from
temperature sensor LM35. The reading output is displayed
into PC through UART1.

The 10 bit ADC used for reading the temperature from

LM35. Basic clocking for the A/D converters is provided by
the VPB clock. A programmable divider is included in each
converter, to scale this clock to the 4.5 MHz (max) clock
needed by the successive approximation process. A fully
accurate conversion requires 11 of these clocks.

Pin Assignment with LPC2148

Temp Sensor LPC2148 Lines Temperature Sensor

Temp
LM35

P0.28
Output LPC2148

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Circuit Diagram to Interface LM35 with LPC2148
3.3V

+5V

63
51
43
23
7
U16

VDD1
VDD2
VDD3
VDDA
VREF
6 U16
18 VSS1 1
25 VSS2 Vdd
42 VSS3 13 2
50 VSS4 P0.28 DQ
59 VSS5 R48 4K7 3
VSSA GND
LPC2148
LM35
XTAL2

XTAL1
61

62

12MHz

C56 X23 C57

22pf 22pf

Source Code

The Interfacing LM35 with LPC2148 program is very

simple and straight forward, that reading temperature from
temperature sensor LM35 and it display into PC through
serial port. The C programs are written in Keil software.
Some delay is occurring when a single data is sent to PC.

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 C Program to read temperature using LPC2148
***************************************************************************************
Title : Program to read temperature
***************************************************************************************

#include <LPC214X.H>
#include <stdio.h>

#define DONE 0x80000000

#define START 0x01000000
#define PRESET 0x00230600

void main ()
{
unsigned long Val;
VPBDIV = 0x02; // pclk @ 30MHz
Serial_Init ();
PINSEL1 = 0x01 << 24; // P0.28 configure as ADC0.1
Welcome ();

AD0CR = PRESET | 0x02;

AD0CR |= START; // Start Conversion NOW

while (1)
{
do
{
Val = AD0GDR;

}while ((Val & DONE) == 0);

Val = ((AD0GDR >> 6) & 0x3FF);

printf (">> Current Temperature : %4d ", Val);
printf ("\xF8\F \r");
}

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void Delay ()
{
unsigned int i,j;
for (i=0;i<50;i++)
for (j=0;j<500;j++);

void Welcome ()
{
printf ("-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.\n\r");
printf (" Developed By : R&D Wing \n\r");
printf (" © 2009 Pantech Solutions Pvt Ltd \n\r");
printf ("--------------------------------------
------------------\n\r");
printf ("*** Temperature Sensor Interfacing with
Tyro Kit ***\n\r");
printf ("---------------------------------------
-----------------\n\r");
printf (">> Put Jumper J in 'E' Mode to Enable
Temp Sensor Block \n\r");
printf (">> Connect UART1 to COM Port @ 9600
Baud Rate\n\n\r");
printf ("**************************************
******************\n\r");
printf ("*************************
Result ***********************\n\r");
printf ("**************************************
******************\n\n\r");

void Serial_Init ()
{
PINSEL0 |= 0x00050000; // TxD1 and RxD1 @ P0.8 & P0.9
U1LCR = 0x83;
U1DLL = 195;
U1LCR = 0x03;
}

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 To compile the above C code you need the KEIL
software. They must be properly set up and a project with
correct settings must be created in order to compile the
code. To compile the above code, Temp Sens.c file must be
added to the project.

In Keil, you want to develop or debug the project

without any hardware setup. You must compile the code for
generating HEX file. In debugging Mode, you want to check
the port output without microcontroller Board.

The Flash Magic software is used to download the hex

file into your LPC2148 Tyro Board through UART0.

Testing the LM35 Based Thermometer with LPC2148

Give +3.3V power supply to LPC2148 Tyro Board; the

serial cable is connected between the controller and PC.
Open the Hyper Terminal screen, select which port you are
using and set the default settings. Now the screen should
show the current temperature readings.

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 Bring a Hot soldering iron tip near the LM35's pins,
don't touch it keep it 1 or 2mm away. The screen should
update with the rising temperature. Now finally touch the
pins of LM35 with the tip of iron, the temperature should
rise quickly. Keep it there until temperature rise to 80
degrees, and then remove the iron.

General Information

For proper working use the components of exact values

as shown in Circuit file. Wherever possible use new
components.
Solder everything in a clean way. A major problem
arises due to improper soldering, solder jumps and
loose joints.
Use the exact value crystal shown in schematic.
More instructions are available in following articles,

 Interfacing UART with LPC2148 Microcontroller.

 Interfacing ADC with LPC2148 Microcontroller.

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