The LP2980–ADJ is a 50 mA LDO that be configured for an output voltage from 1.23V to 15V using a pair of resistors.
The datasheet lists a formula for the output voltage, however no easy-to-use customizable software is provided that can be used to directly compute the correct resistor in a reproducible way.
Attached to this post is a script based on UliEngineering that not only computes the closest E96 (default, other ranges also available) resistor value and the actual output voltage with the actual E96 resistor value. A usage example is included at the bottom.
#!/usr/bin/env python3 """ A script that computes the LP2980-ADJ adjust resistor. See http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lp2980-adj.pdf page 17 Based on Resistors.py, see http://techoverflow.net/blog/2015/05/19/finding-the-nearest-e96-resistor-value-in-python/ """ from UliEngineering.EngineerIO import * from UliEngineering.Electronics.Resistors import * __author__ = "Uli Köhler" __license__ = "CC0 1.0 Universal" __version__ = "1.0" def computeLP2980OutputVoltage(r): """Compute the actual output voltage of a LP2980-ADJ given the adj resistor""" return 1.23 + 1.23 * (r / 51.1e3) def computeLP2980AdjResistor(u): """ Compute the exact value for the LP2980-ADJ adjust resistor, given a target output voltage in volts. """ #Check limits if u < 1.23: print("Warning: LP2980-ADJ does not support output voltages below 1.23V") elif u > 15: print("Warning: LP2980-ADJ does not support output voltages above 15V") # return (100 * u - 123) * 51100 / 123 # Usage example: Compute E96 Rlim for U=4.00V if __name__ == "__main__": # Compute theoretical value radj = computeLP2980AdjResistor(normalize_numeric("4.00 V")) # Compute nearest actual value e96_rlim = nearest_resistor(radj, sequence=e96) actual_vout = computeLP2980OutputVoltage(e96_rlim) # Print results print("Theoretical Radj value: %s" % (format_value(radj, "Ω"))) print("Closest E96 value: %s" % (format_value(e96_rlim, "Ω"))) print("Output voltage at closest E96 value: %s" % (format_value(actual_vout, "V")))