Re: [PATCH v7 5/6] dt-bindings: iio: adc: ad7192: Add AD7194 support

[Conor Dooley]

On Sun, May 05, 2024 at 08:46:02PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:21:01 +0100
> Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 07:29:45PM +0300, Alisa-Dariana Roman wrote:
> > > +      diff-channels:
> > > +        description:
> > > +          Both inputs can be connected to pins AIN1 to AIN16 by choosing the
> > > +          appropriate value from 1 to 16.
> > > +        items:
> > > +          minimum: 1
> > > +          maximum: 16
> > > +
> > > +      single-channel:
> > > +        description:
> > > +          Positive input can be connected to pins AIN1 to AIN16 by choosing the
> > > +          appropriate value from 1 to 16. Negative input is connected to AINCOM.
> > > +        items:
> > > +          minimum: 1
> > > +          maximum: 16  
> > 
> > Up to 16 differential channels and 16 single-ended channels, but only 16
> > pins? Would the number of differential channels not max out at 8?
> 
> May not really be limited to 16 differential. Many chips use general purpose
> muxes on both sides so you can do all combinations. In practice that's normally
> pointless.
> 
> A more useful case is to do all but one channel as positive inputs and the remaining
> channel as the negative for those 15 differential channels.

Yah, 15 is what I had in my head as the highest reasonable number given
the information given about the AIN# pins.

> This is effectively the same as doing pseudo differential channels, but
> on more flexible hardware.  This is in contrast to a device that only supports
> pseudo differential where there is a special pin for the negative
> (this device has that as well as full muxes on the other 16 lines).
> 
> Having said all that.  The ad7194 datasheet says 8 differential channels..
> I have no idea why though... Maybe something to do with the mux switching?
> Or maybe assumption is that if you want to do pseudo differential you'll use
> the pseudo differential mode rather than wasting hardware?

I didn't look at the datasheet tbf, I was just asking given the
description didn't make sense to me and looking for an explanation from
the author.

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