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PWM frequency for Timer2

 
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PWM frequency for Timer2
PostPosted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 2:43 am     Reply with quote

Hello,

It's about PIC18F46K22 running at 64 MHz.

I was trying to understand a code which says:

Code:
setup_timer_2(T2_DIV_BY_4, 140, 1); // PWM frequency is 28.369 kHz


I think that Timer2 is 8 bit. I don't understand the PWM frequency is 28.369 kHz.

CCS Compiler Reference Manual says:

Quote:
setup_timer_2 (mode, period, postscale)

mode may be one of: T2_DISABLED, T2_DIV_BY_1, T2_DIV_BY_4, T2_DIV_BY_16. Period is a int 0-255 that determines when the clock value is reset. Postscale is a number 1-16 that determines how many timer overflows before an interrupt: (1 means once, 2 means twice, and so on)


Can you please help me to figure out how 28.369 kHz is calculated?
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 3:49 am     Reply with quote

This is the PWM formula:
Code:

                      Crystal Frequency
PWM Freq  = -----------------------------------------
                  (PR2 + 1) * (Timer2 Prescaler) * 4
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 3:58 am     Reply with quote

The key things to note are the '+1', and that it is Fosc/4, that feeds the
timer prescaler (this is the '*4 in the calculation).
Gives 28368.794 Hz for the example you post.
Rounded to the nearest Hz 28369.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 5:28 pm     Reply with quote

Thanks very much!

PWM Freq = (64*10^6) / {(140+1)*(4)*4} = 28368.9 Hz

Code:

                      Crystal Frequency
PWM Freq  = -----------------------------------------
                  (PR2 + 1) * (Timer2 Prescaler) * 4


In the formula posted by @PCM programmer "PR2" is period, "Timer2 Prescalar" is prescalar, what's the purpose of "4"?

The reference manual says that for the Timer2 period is a int 0-255 that determines when the clock value is reset. I think that an interrupt is generated when clock value is reset. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 7:17 pm     Reply with quote

ProgPath wrote:
what's the purpose of "4"?

Did you read Ttelmah's post ? He gave the reason for the '4'.

ProgPath wrote:
I think that an interrupt is generated when clock value is reset.

The mid-range PIC reference manual says:
Quote:

Timer2 always resets to zero when it equals PR2 and flag bit TMR2IF
always gets set at this time. By putting FFh into PR2, you will get an
interrupt on overflow at FFh.

Setting TMR2IF generates an interrupt. This occurs when it hits the
period count of 140 in your posted code.

See Question 6 on page 15:
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/31014a.pdf
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 8:43 pm     Reply with quote

PCM programmer wrote:
ProgPath wrote:
what's the purpose of "4"?

Did you read Ttelmah's post ? He gave the reason for the '4'.


Hello,

Yes, I read what Ttelmah wrote: "The key things to note are the '+1', and that it is Fosc/4, that feeds the timer prescaler (this is the '*4 in the calculation)."

So, "4" is in a way predefined 'prescalar' which divides the oscillator frequency by 4 by default. I was confused before.

Thanks very much!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:18 am     Reply with quote

Exactly.

It's actually the 'instruction clock'. Lot's of things in the PIC run off Fosc/4
rather than Fosc. This is the clock rate of a single processor instruction.
In fact using Fosc, is the unusual rate, Fosc/4 is the commonest rate.
This is the clock that is fed 'out' of the chip if you enable a clock output,
and if you look at the timer block diagrams (so for example Fig 13-1for
Timer2/4/6), you will see that the clock being fed in on the left is 'Fosc/4'.
Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 1:55 am     Reply with quote

Thanks very much! Very nice of you guys.
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