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Office Map Circuit diagram for each experiment may not be available separately because they are conducted with PIC12F683 development board that I made. So, the readers should first see the schematic of my development board.

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Experiment No. 5: DC Motor Speed Control using Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)

Introduction

PIC12F683 has a built-in PWM module. The PWM output (CCP1 pin) is multiplexed with GPIO.2 (pin 5). So the TRISIO<2> bit must be cleared to make the CCP1 pin an output.
The objective of this experiment is to control the speed of a DC motor with an input from a potentiometer. This will be achieved in two steps:
  • Read analog value (potentiometer output) through AN0 channel and generate a PWM wave at CCP1 pin (5) with duty cycle proportional to the analog value.
  • Feed the PWM to motor driver transistor and observe the speed.
mikroC library routines for PWM
PWM1_Init
PWM1_Set_Duty
PWM1_Start
PWM1_Stop

Since PWM1_Set_Duty library function takes duty cycle input as an 8-bit integer, the digital value of analog signal, which is 10-bit, must be converted to 8-bit first. This will give 256 speed levels (0-255).

Experimental Setup
Connect POT2 output to pin 7 (AN0) of PIC12F683 and pin 5 (CCP1) to the input of motor driver transistor.

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