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| software:linux:docs:iio:iio [30 May 2012 13:36] – [IIO Ring Buffer] Michael Hennerich | software:linux:docs:iio:iio [05 Jun 2020 17:03] (current) – [IIO Overview] Grammar changes Iulia Moldovan | ||
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| ===== IIO Overview ===== | ===== IIO Overview ===== | ||
| - | * The Industrial I/O subsystem is intended to provide support for devices that in some sense are analog to digital or digital to analog | + | * The Industrial I/O subsystem is intended to provide support for devices that in some sense are analog to digital or digital to analog |
| * Devices that fall into this category are: | * Devices that fall into this category are: | ||
| * ADCs | * ADCs | ||
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| * The overall aim is to fill the gap between the somewhat similar hwmon and input subsystems. | * The overall aim is to fill the gap between the somewhat similar hwmon and input subsystems. | ||
| * Hwmon is very much directed at low sample rate sensors used in applications such as fan speed control and temperature measurement. | * Hwmon is very much directed at low sample rate sensors used in applications such as fan speed control and temperature measurement. | ||
| - | * Input is, as it' | + | * The input is (as its name suggests) focused on human interaction input devices: |
| * Keyboard | * Keyboard | ||
| * Mouse | * Mouse | ||
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| * Joystick | * Joystick | ||
| - | * In some cases there is considerable overlap between these and IIO. | + | * In some cases, there is considerable overlap between these and IIO. |
| * A typical device falling into the IIO category would be connected via SPI or I2C. | * A typical device falling into the IIO category would be connected via SPI or I2C. | ||
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| * These are similar to input in that they provide a route to user space for hardware triggered events. Such events include threshold detectors, free-fall detectors and more complex action detection. | * These are similar to input in that they provide a route to user space for hardware triggered events. Such events include threshold detectors, free-fall detectors and more complex action detection. | ||
| - | <note> | + | <WRAP round help> |
| A given device may have one or more event channel. | A given device may have one or more event channel. | ||
| - | </note> | + | </WRAP> |
| * Hardware ring buffer support | * Hardware ring buffer support | ||
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