Pressure 15 Click

How does it work?

Pressure 15 Click as its foundation uses the LPS27HHW is a high-resolution, ultra-compact piezoresistive absolute pressure sensor that functions as a digital output barometer from STMicroelectronics. The complete device includes a sensing element based on a piezoresistive Wheatstone bridge approach which detects absolute pressure in a range of 260 up to 1260hPa, and a serial interface that communicates a digital signal from the sensing element to the application.

The LPS27HHW has a unique cylindrical package solution with an entire metal lid assembled on a ceramic substrate. When pressure is applied, the membrane deflection induces an imbalance in the Wheatstone bridge piezoresistance, whose output signal is then converted by the chosen serial interface.

Pressure 15 Click provides the possibility of using both I2C and SPI interfaces with a maximum frequency of 100kHz in Standard and 400kHz in Fast mode for I2C and 8MHz for SPI communication. The selection can be made by positioning SMD jumpers labeled as COMM SEL to an appropriate position. Note that all the jumpers’ positions must be on the same side, or else the Click board™ may become unresponsive. While the I2C interface is selected, the LPS27HHW allows the choice of the least significant bit (LSB) of its I2C slave address using the SMD jumper labeled as ADDR SEL.

Also, the LPS27HHW features a Data-Ready signal, routed on the INT pin of the mikroBUS™ socket, which indicates when a new set of measured pressure data are available, simplifying data synchronization in the digital system that uses the device.

This Click board™ can be operated only with a 3.3V logic voltage level. The board must perform appropriate logic voltage level conversion before use with MCUs with different logic levels. However, the Click board™ comes equipped with a library containing functions and an example code that can be used, as a reference, for further development.

Specifications

Pinout diagram

This table shows how the pinout on Pressure 15 Click corresponds to the pinout on the mikroBUS™ socket (the latter shown in the two middle columns).

Notes	Pin					Pin	Notes
	NC	1	AN	PWM	16	NC
	NC	2	RST	INT	15	INT	Interrupt
SPI Chip Select	CS	3	CS	RX	14	NC
SPI Clock	SCK	4	SCK	TX	13	NC
SPI Data OUT	SDO	5	MISO	SCL	12	SCL	I2C Clock
SPI Data IN	SDI	6	MOSI	SDA	11	SDA	I2C Data
Power Supply	3.3V	7	3.3V	5V	10	NC
Ground	GND	8	GND	GND	9	GND	Ground

Onboard settings and indicators

Pressure 15 Click electrical specifications

Software Support

We provide a library for the Pressure 15 Click as well as a demo application (example), developed using MikroElektronika compilers. The demo can run on all the main MikroElektronika development boards.

Package can be downloaded/installed directly from NECTO Studio Package Manager(recommended way), downloaded from our LibStock™ or found on Mikroe github account.

Library Description

This library contains API for Pressure 15 Click driver.

Key functions:

• pressure15_cfg_setup – Config Object Initialization function.
• pressure15_init – Initialization function.
• pressure15_default_cfg – Click Default Configuration function.

Examples description

The demo application is composed of two sections :

void application_task ( void ) 
{
    if ( pressure15_get_int( &pressure15 ) )
    {
        float temperature, pressure;
        
        pressure15_get_pressure( &pressure15, &pressure );
        log_printf( &logger, " > Pressure[hPa]: %.2frn", pressure );
        
        pressure15_get_temperature( &pressure15, &temperature );
        log_printf( &logger, " > Temperature[degC]: %.2frn", temperature );
        log_printf( &logger, "***************************************rn" );
        Delay_ms( 200 );
    }
}

The full application code, and ready to use projects can be installed directly from NECTO Studio Package Manager(recommended way), downloaded from our LibStock™ or found on Mikroe github account.

Other Mikroe Libraries used in the example:

• MikroSDK.Board
• MikroSDK.Log
• Click.Pressure15

Additional notes and informations

Depending on the development board you are using, you may need USB UART click, USB UART 2 click or RS232 click to connect to your PC, for development systems with no UART to USB interface available on the board. The terminal available in all MikroElektronika compilers, or any other terminal application of your choice, can be used to read the message.

mikroSDK

This Click board™ is supported with mikroSDK – MikroElektronika Software Development Kit. To ensure proper operation of mikroSDK compliant Click board™ demo applications, mikroSDK should be downloaded from the LibStock and installed for the compiler you are using.

For more information about mikroSDK, visit the official page.