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Ratiometric voltage measurement is most commonly used for external temperature sensing. To measure an external temperature sensor, the GPIO connections must have a resistor divider from TSREF to AVSS with the GPIO connected to the center tap. The NTC can then be connected from TSREF to GPIO or from GPIO to AVSS. Optionally, the GPIO input could be filtered using a low-pass filter (CGPIO and RGPIO) to reduce high-frequency noise as shown Figure 7-1.
The main ADC measures TSREF and GPIO voltages in its round robin. A microcontroller calculates the ratiometric voltage by Equation 6.
Temperature accuracy is affected by ADC measurement error and external component error. Using ratiometric measurement greatly reduces the ADC measurement error. Furthermore, the better the tolerance of the external circuit, the more accurate temperature sensing.