Si7005USB-DONGLE Silicon Labs

Si7005USB-DONGLE EVALUATION DONGLE KIT FOR THE Si7005 TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY SENSOR 1. Introduction The Si7005 is a relative humidity and temperature environmental sensor in a 4 mm x 4 mm QFN package. Access 2 to the sensor output is via a standard I C digital interface. The Si7005 is a highly-integrated device incorporating a 2 humidity sensor, temperature sensor, signal conditioning, an analog-to-digital converter, control logic, and an I C interface. 2. Evaluation Kit Description This document describes the operation of the Silicon Laboratories Si7005USB-DONGLE Rev 1.0 evaluation kit. The Si7005 evaluation kit and accompanying graphical user interface software allow the user quick and easy access to the features and functions of the Si7005 sensor as well as enabling the evaluation of the sensors performance. The evaluation kit includes the following: Si7005USB-DONGLE evaluation board consisting of one Si7005 sensor Windows graphical user interface software for complete control of the Si7005 sensor (Windows XP, VISTA, or 7 required) C8051F381 Si7005 Figure 1. Si7005USB-DONGLE Figure 2. Si7005-EVB (Ordered Separately) Rev. 0.2 10/12 Copyright 2012 by Silicon Laboratories Si7005USB-DONGLESi7005USB-DONGLE 3. Software Setup It is important that the software be installed before connecting the USB dongle to the PC this ensures that the software drivers are correctly installed. To set up the software, run the file, setup.exe, from the supplied software installation disk. The Si7005 demo platform was developed based on National Instruments LabView platform. To install it, you must accept the National Instruments end-user license agreement shown in Figure 3. Figure 3. National Instruments Software License Agreement Continue through the following screens, which track the Graphical User Interface installation. 2 Rev. 0.2