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iio_reg

iio_reg is part of the Libiio package, a library that has been developed to ease the development of software interfacing Linux Industrial I/O (IIO) devices. There are four main userspace helper/utilities:

  • iio_attr : read and write IIO attributes
  • iio_info : dump the IIO attributes
  • iio_readdev : read an IIO buffer device
  • iio_writedev : write an IIO buffer device
  • iio_reg : read or write SPI or I2C registers in an IIO device (useful to debug drivers)

analog@imhotep:~$ iio_reg -h
Usage:

iio_reg <device> <register> [<value>]

Running Remote

The iio_reg application can also connect to a libiio remote device via IP. Prior in running iio_reg set the IIOD_REMOTE environmental variable.

This specifies any shell prompt running on the host or target

> export IIOD_REMOTE=IP address of the remote platform

Finding

An IIO context can have multiple logical devices, and sometimes not all devices will have a specific register interface. To find out which IIO device support register access, try (remember that iio_attr supports a -D option to look for debug attributes).

# iio_attr  -u ip:192.168.2.1 -D
IIO context has 4 devices:
	iio:device0, ad9361-phy: found 179 debug attributes
	iio:device1, xadc: found 0 debug attributes
	iio:device2, cf-ad9361-dds-core-lpc: found 1 debug attributes
	iio:device3, cf-ad9361-lpc: found 2 debug attributes

# iio_attr  -u ip:192.168.2.1 -D . direct_reg_access
dev 'ad9361-phy', debug attr 'direct_reg_access', value :'0x0'
dev 'cf-ad9361-dds-core-lpc', debug attr 'direct_reg_access', value :'0x90162'
dev 'cf-ad9361-lpc', debug attr 'direct_reg_access', value :'0x0'

From here you can see the three different devices that support the iio_reg tool.

Example

# iio_reg ad9361-phy 0x3
0x5c

resources/tools-software/linux-software/libiio/iio_reg.txt · Last modified: 08 Oct 2021 21:43 by Robin Getz