Can you use 2 PWM's simultaneously?

[DynamoBen]

I'm not sure what’s out there but how about using external circuitry to get the second PWM.

http://www.edn.com/article/CA305484.html

[schu4647]

I have done this before. You just need to put the 2 PWM commands side by side in a for next and do it for one cycle. Adjusing the 3 that I have there will keep the same duty cycle for longer or shorter. Your eye can't tell the difference. This circuit would brighten with the push of one button and dim with the push of another. It would time out after the counter got to 1200 and they would both go out. Not energy efficient but this was one of the first programs I wrote for my thesis. It was on a 16f84a

DUTY VAR BYTE
sleeptime VAR WORD
i VAR BYTE

Input PORTB.0 'Decrease light and time button
Input PORTB.1 'Increase light and time button

DUTY = 127 'Set LED to half brightness
sleeptime = 0 'Set sleeptime to 0

START:
For i = 1 to 3 'Go through each duty cycle 3 times or 30ms in time
PWM PORTB.4,DUTY,1 'Output to LED
PWM PORTB.5,DUTY,1 'Output to LED
Next i

IF (PORTB.1 = 1) AND (DUTY > 0) Then 'Check to see if light decrease is pushed
Duty = Duty - 1 'Make LED dimmer by 1 count
EndIF

IF (PORTB.2 = 1) AND (DUTY < 255) Then 'Check to see if light increase is pushed
DUTY = DUTY + 1 'Make LED brighter by 1 count
EndIF

GoSub testsleep 'Check to see if sleep creteria is met; no inputs for delay time
GoTo START 'Return to start

testsleep:
IF (PORTB.1 = 1) AND (sleeptime = 1200) Then
sleeptime = 0 'Reset sleeptime if an input is high and sleeptime is already at max
duty = 127 'On input set the LED's to half brightness
EndIF

IF (PORTB.2 = 1) AND (sleeptime = 1200) Then
sleeptime = 0 'Reset sleeptime if an input is high and sleeptime is already at max
duty = 127 'On input set the LED's to half brightness
EndIF

IF (PORTB.1 = 0) AND (PORTB.2 = 0) AND (sleeptime < 1200) Then
sleeptime = sleeptime + 1 'Increment sleeptime if no inputs
EndIF

IF sleeptime = 1200 Then 'If sleeptime gets to 1200 turn off LED's
Duty = 0
EndIF

Return

[mister_e]

Another idea, even if not the best, having a 2XHPWM frequency, fed the HPWM output on a INT pin, enable the interrupt, and play with the duty in the Interupt handler... in my head it's working but i know i miss something in it....

OR create your own with a Timer interrupt.. but geez, a little bit more tricky if you really need it 100% stable.

Or, a double I2C DAC could be intereting... something like MAX518 if you can deal with a 8 bit resolution. They're not too cheap but great and simple to use.

There's still the Digital pot way, or, or ,or... man it's incredible how many ways you can do it )


What is the purpose of those PWMs?

EDIT: Darrel already done a SSPWM solution bellow but the frequency range is probably out of what you need
http://www.pbpgroup.com/modules/wfse...p?articleid=12

[peterdeco1]

Hi Steve. The purpose is for motor control. I already made a circuit using the pulsout command. It works but, if I can have HPWM running the motors in the backround, it frees-up the PIC to do other things like checking battery voltage, turn on lights, monitor the motor FET's for shorts, etc. I've pretty much decided I'll have to use a 28 pin PIC such as 16F73.