Adafruit DPS310 User Manual

Adafruit DPS310 Precision Barometric Pressure and Altitude Sensor

Created by Kattni Rembor

Last updated on 2021-05-06 06:53:11 PM EDT

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Guide Contents

Guide Contents Overview Pinouts

Power Pins I2C Logic Pins: SPI Logic pins:

Arduino I2C Wiring SPI Wiring Library Installation Load Example

Example Code

Arduino Docs Python & CircuitPython CircuitPython Microcontroller Wiring Python Computer Wiring CircuitPython Installation of DPS310 Library Python Installation of DPS310 Library CircuitPython & Python Usage

Example Code

Python Docs Downloads

Files

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Overview

How high are you right now? If you had a precision altitude sensor, you would know for sure! The DPS310

sensor from Infineon a high precision barometric sensor, perfect for measuring altitude changes with a up

to ±0.002 hPa (or ±0.02 m) precision high precision mode and ± 1 hPa absolute accuracy. That means you

can know your absolute altitude with 1 meter accuracy when you set the sea-level pressure, and measure

changes in altitude with up to 2 cm precision. This makes it a great sensor for use in drones or other

altitude-sensitive robots. This sensor would also do well in any environmental sensing kit, you can use it to

predict weather system changes

You can use this sensor with either I2C or SPI, so it's easy to integrate into projects. It also has a

temperature sensor built in, with ± 0.5°C accuracy. For the lowest noise readings, set it up to take multiple

measurements and perform a low-pass filter, that capability is built in! You can use it from 300 to 1200 hPa

and in ambient temperature ranges from -40 to 85 °C.

To make life easier, so you can focus on your important work, we've taken the sensor and put it onto a

breakout PCB along with support circuitry to let you use it with 3.3V (Feather/Raspberry Pi) or 5V

(Arduino/ Metro328) logic levels. Additionally, since it speaks I2C, you can easily connect it up with two

wires (plus power and ground!). We've even included SparkFun qwiic (https://adafru.it/Fpw)

compatible STEMMA QT (https://adafru.it/Ft4) connectors for the I2C bus so you don't even need to

solder! Just wire up to your favorite microcontroller and you can use our CircuitPython/Python or Arduino

drivers (https://adafru.it/IFR) to easily interface with the DPS310.

Pinouts

Power Pins

Vin - this is the power pin. Since the sensor chip uses 3 VDC, we have included a voltage regulator

on board that will take 3-5VDC and safely convert it down. To power the board, give it the same

power as the logic level of your microcontroller - e.g. for a 5V microcontroller like Arduino, use 5V

3Vo - this is the 3.3V output from the voltage regulator, you can grab up to 100mA from this if you

like

GND - common ground for power and logic

I2C Logic Pins:

SCK - This is

also

the I2C clock pin SCL, connect to your microcontroller's I2C clock line. This pin is

level shifted so you can use 3-5V logic, and there's a 10K pullup on this pin.

SDI - This is

also

the I2C data pin SDA, connect to your microcontroller's I2C data line. This pin is

level shifted so you can use 3-5V logic, and there's a 10K pullup on this pin.

SDO - This is

also

the I2C address pin ADR. Pulling this pin low to GND or bridging the solder jumper

on the back will change the I2C address from 0x77 to 0x76

STEMMA QT (https://adafru.it/Ft4) - These connectors allow you to connect to dev boards with

STEMMA QT connectors or to other things with various associated accessories (https://adafru.it/Ft6)

SPI Logic pins:

All pins going into the breakout have level shifting circuitry to make them 3-5V logic level safe. Use

whatever logic level is on Vin!

SCK - The SPI Clock pin, it's an input to the chip

SDO - The Serial Data Out / Microcontroller In Sensor Out, for data sent from the DPS310 to your

processor.

SDI - The Serial Data In / Microcontroller Out Sensor In pin, for data sent from your processor to the

DPS310

CS - The Chip Select pin, drop it low to start an SPI transaction. Its an input to the chip

If you want to connect multiple DPS310's to one microcontroller, have them share the SDI, SDO and SCK

pins. Then assign each one a unique CS pin.

Arduino I2C Wiring

Use this wiring if you want to connect via I2C interface

By default, the I2C address is 0x77. If you add a jumper from D DO to GND the address will change to

0x76

Connect board VIN (red wire) to Arduino 5V if you are

running a 5V board Arduino (Uno, etc.). If your board is

3V, connect to that instead.

Connect board GND (black wire) to Arduino GND

Connect board SCL (yellow wire) to Arduino SCL

Connect board SDA (blue wire) to Arduino SDA

The final results should resemble the illustration above, showing an Adafruit Metro development board.

SPI Wiring

Since this is a SPI-capable sensor, we can use hardware or 'software' SPI. To make wiring identical on all

microcontrollers, we'll begin with 'software' SPI. The following pins should be used:

Connect Vin to the power supply, 3V or 5V is fine. Use

the same voltage that the microcontroller logic is based

off of

Connect GND to common power/data ground

Connect the SCK pin to Digital #13 but any pin can be

used later

Connect the SDO pin to Digital #12 but any pin can be

used later

Connect the SDI pin to Digital #11 but any pin can be

used later

Connect the CS pin Digital #10 but any pin can be used

later

Later on, once we get it working, we can adjust the library to use hardware SPI if you desire, or change

the pins to others.

Library Installation

You can install the Adafruit DPS310 Library for Arduino using the Library Manager in the Arduino IDE.

Click the Manage Libraries ... menu item, search for Adafruit DPS310 and select the Adafruit

DPS310 library:

Then follow the same process for the Adafruit BusIO library.

Finally follow the same process for the Adafruit Unified Sensor library:

Load Example

Open up File -> Examples -> Adafruit DPS310 -> dps310_simpletest and upload to your Arduino wired up

to the sensor.

Depending on whether you are using I2C or SPI, change the pin names and comment or uncomment the

following lines.

if (! dps.begin_I2C()) { // Can pass in I2C address here //if (! dps.begin_SPI(DPS310_CS)) { // If you want to use SPI

Once you upload the code and open the Serial Monitor ( Tools->Serial Monitor) at 115200 baud, you will

see the current configuration printed, followed by the pressure, and temperature measurements. You

should see something similar to this:

Carefully pressing on the small port on the top of the sensor will change the pressure and temperature

readings. Give it a try and see how it works!

Example Code

// This example shows how to read temperature/pressure

#include <Adafruit_DPS310.h>

Adafruit_DPS310 dps;

// Can also use SPI! #define DPS310_CS 10

void setup() { Serial.begin(115200); while (!Serial) delay(10);

Serial.println("DPS310"); if (! dps.begin_I2C()) { // Can pass in I2C address here //if (! dps.begin_SPI(DPS310_CS)) { // If you want to use SPI Serial.println("Failed to find DPS"); while (1) yield(); } Serial.println("DPS OK!");

dps.configurePressure(DPS310_64HZ, DPS310_64SAMPLES); dps.configureTemperature(DPS310_64HZ, DPS310_64SAMPLES); }

void loop() { sensors_event_t temp_event, pressure_event;

while (!dps.temperatureAvailable() || !dps.pressureAvailable()) { return; // wait until there's something to read }

dps.getEvents(&temp_event, &pressure_event); Serial.print(F("Temperature = ")); Serial.print(temp_event.temperature); Serial.println(" *C");

Serial.print(F("Pressure = ")); Serial.print(pressure_event.pressure); Serial.println(" hPa");

Serial.println(); }

Arduino Docs

Arduino Docs (https://adafru.it/ICC)

Python & CircuitPython

It's easy to use the DPS310 sensor with CircuitPython or Python and the Adafruit CircuitPython

DPS310 (https://adafru.it/IFS) library. This library will allow you to easily write Python code that reads the

barometric pressure, altitude and more from the sensor.

You can use this sensor with any CircuitPython microcontroller board or with a computer that has GPIO

and Python thanks to Adafruit_Blinka, our CircuitPython-for-Python compatibility

library (https://adafru.it/BSN).

CircuitPython Microcontroller Wiring

First wire up a DSM310 breakout to your board exactly as shown below. Here's an example of wiring a

Feather M4 to the sensor with I2C:

Board 3V to sensor VIN (red wire)

Board GND to sensor GND (black wire)

Board SCL to sensor SCK/SCL (yellow wire)

Board SDA to sensor SDI/SDA (blue wire)

Python Computer Wiring

Since there's

dozens

of Linux computers/boards you can use, we will show wiring for Raspberry Pi. For

other platforms, please visit the guide for CircuitPython on Linux to see whether your platform is

supported (https://adafru.it/BSN).

Here's the Raspberry Pi wired to the sensor using I2C:

Pi 3V to sensor VCC (red wire)

Pi GND to sensor GND (black wire)

Pi SCL to sensor SCK/SCL (yellow wire)

Pi SDA to sensor SDI/SDA (blue wire)

CircuitPython Installation of DPS310 Library

You'll need to install the Adafruit CircuitPython DPS310 (https://adafru.it/IFS) library on your CircuitPython

board.

First make sure you are running the latest version of Adafruit CircuitPython (https://adafru.it/Amd) for your

board.

Next you'll need to install the necessary libraries to use the hardware--carefully follow the steps to find

and install these libraries from Adafruit's CircuitPython library bundle (https://adafru.it/ENC). Our

CircuitPython starter guide has a great page on how to install the library bundle (https://adafru.it/ABU).

For non-express boards like the Trinket M0 or Gemma M0, you'll need to manually install the necessary

libraries from the bundle:

adafruit_dps310.mpy

adafruit_bus_device

adafruit_register

Before continuing make sure your board's lib folder has the adafruit_dps310.mpy, adafruit_bus_device,

and adafruit_register files and folders copied over.

Next connect to the board's serial REPL (https://adafru.it/Awz)so you are at the CircuitPython >>> prompt.

Python Installation of DPS310 Library

You'll need to install the Adafruit_Blinka library that provides the CircuitPython support in Python. This

may also require enabling I2C on your platform and verifying you are running Python 3. Since each

platform is a little different, and Linux changes often, please visit the CircuitPython on Linux guide to get

your computer ready (https://adafru.it/BSN)!

Once that's done, from your command line run the following command:

sudo pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-dps310

If your default Python is version 3 you may need to run 'pip' instead. Just make sure you aren't trying to

use CircuitPython on Python 2.x, it isn't supported!

CircuitPython & Python Usage

To demonstrate the usage of the sensor we'll initialize it and read the barometric pressure measurements

from the board's Python REPL.

Run the following code to import the necessary modules and initialize the I2C connection with the sensor:

import time import board import adafruit_dps310

i2c = board.I2C()

dps310 = adafruit_dps310.DPS310(i2c)

Now you're ready to read values from the sensor using these properties:

pressure - The barometric pressure in hPa

temperature - The temperature in degrees C

For example to print the pressure and temperature values:

print("Temperature = %.2f *C"%dps310.temperature) print("Pressure = %.2f hPa"%dps310.pressure)

For more details, check out the library documentation (https://adafru.it/IDK).

That's all there is to using the DPS310 Precision Barometric Pressure Sensor with CircuitPython!

Example Code

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 ladyada for Adafruit Industries # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

import time import board import adafruit_dps310

i2c = board.I2C() # uses board.SCL and board.SDA dps310 = adafruit_dps310.DPS310(i2c)

while True: print("Temperature = %.2f *C" % dps310.temperature) print("Pressure = %.2f hPa" % dps310.pressure) print("") time.sleep(1.0)

Python Docs

Python Docs (https://adafru.it/IDK)

Downloads

Files

DPS310 Datasheet (https://adafru.it/IFT)

EagleCAD files on GitHub (https://adafru.it/IFU)

Fritzing object in Adafruit Fritzing Library (https://adafru.it/IFV)

Schematic

Note: The schematic includes the BMP280 because they are the exact same pinouts and dimensions.

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