Variable frequency PWM using MikroC + PIC16F887

When I was doing a project on a robot,I found out that the MikroC PWM library doesn’t support variable frequency values for the PWM frequency. I needed to use such variable values to drive servo motor according to the feedback. Hence,I tried to find some other libraries I can use (I know it’s easy to write from scratch,but why show we reinvent the wheel?)

After googling,I found this excellent PWM library for MikroC by Barton J.  Dring.You can get it from his site,Dring Engineering Services PWM page

You just have to include two functions setPWMFreq(...) & setPWMDuty(...) ,from their in your code.Then you can simply call swtPWMFreq(..) function when you need to generate a PWM signal as,

setPWMFreq(unsigned long Fpwm, unsigned long Fosc, unsigned int dutyPercent);

Here I’m going to show how to run a servo motor using PWM,

include functions setPWMFreq(...) & setPWMDuty(...)  in the beginning void main() { char duty=50; // Set the duty cycle OSCCON=0x10; //Setup Internal Oscillator to 125kHz clock TRISC = 0; //Set portC as output setPWMFreq(9,125000,duty); //Set PWM to 9Hz,Fosc=125kHz,duty=50% while(1){ delay_ms(100); } }

Configuration bits:

Here are some useful pages on PIC PWM

PIC16F887 Datasheet

PWM Calculator

PWM Code

Here is a video of running my servo motors using similar code

PIC18F4550 driving MG995 Servo motors