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How to: PWM

Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) is a method to create analog-like signal from the microcontroller digital output. It will achieve that by fast toggling of the pin with different ration of logic HIGH and LOW. This ratio is called duty cycle.

Please check the Core Module pinout to see which pins allows PWM.

SDK PWM functions

Here are the main functions. You need to call all three of them for every PWM output.

void bc_pwm_init(bc_pwm_channel_t channel);
void bc_pwm_enable(bc_pwm_channel_t channel);
void bc_pwm_set(bc_pwm_channel_t channel, uint16_t pwm_value);

The channel parameter can be one of the output pins.

BC_PWM_P0
BC_PWM_P1
BC_PWM_P2
BC_PWM_P3
BC_PWM_P6
BC_PWM_P7
BC_PWM_P8
BC_PWM_P12
BC_PWM_P14

The value is a number between 0 and 255. I choosed this to be the same like in Arduino analogWrite() function. But by calling bc_pwm_tim_configure() function you can simply change period of the PWM.

Example code

Enable PWM signal on P6, P7 and P8 outputs. Every output has different duty cycle: 180, 210 and 255 (which is permanent HIGH).

void application_init()
{
    bc_pwm_init(BC_PWM_P6);
    bc_pwm_set(BC_PWM_P6, 180);
    bc_pwm_enable(BC_PWM_P6);

    bc_pwm_init(BC_PWM_P7);
    bc_pwm_set(BC_PWM_P7, 210);
    bc_pwm_enable(BC_PWM_P7);

    bc_pwm_init(BC_PWM_P8);
    bc_pwm_set(BC_PWM_P8, 255);
    bc_pwm_enable(BC_PWM_P8);
}

Example project