
Explore the ccp (capture/compare/pwm) module in pic18fxxx microcontrollers, contrasting microcontrollers with microprocessors, and preview timer registers, i/o, and peripheral configuration for embedded systems.
History of PIC18F Microcontrollers
Select a PIC microcontroller by balancing speed, RAM and I/O, cost, and tool availability, while evaluating features like I2C and watchdog.
Master input/output handling and the use of special function registers on the PIC18FXXX microcontroller, including port pins, data registers, and alternate functions such as I2C and USART.
Explore the CCP (capture/compare/pwm) module in PIC18F microcontrollers, including capture, compare, and enhanced CCP/PWM features across multiple modules and timers.
Explain timer2 sfrs on pic18fxxx microcontrollers, covering prescaler post scaling, timer on control, overflow flags, and interrupt priority using ip bits with vector 0x08 or 0x18.
Explain timer2 programming in the PIC18FXXX: configure tmr2 and pr2 with no external clock source, count from zero to pr2, and generate an interrupt on match for timing.
Describe the ccp x con register and its related registers, forming a 16-bit capture or compare unit, and explain pwm duty cycles at zero, twenty-five, fifty, and seventy-five percent.
Learn pwm configuration in the PIC18FXXX CCP module by calculating the pwm period from the oscillator and timer registers, applying prescaling, and deriving the duty cycle using CCPR and PR registers.
Configure the CCP module for PWM mode, set period with the PR register in the 0-250 range, and set the duty cycle via the duty registers, then start the timer.
Configure the ccp pwm on a pic18fxxx microcontroller to generate a 1 khz pwm with a 10 percent duty cycle using a 10 mhz oscillator and prescaler 16, pr 155.
Learn how to interface a DC motor with PWM generation using the CCP module in PIC18FXXX microcontrollers, controlling motor speed via duty cycle and pulse width.
With the world so heavily dependent on embedded systems, microcontrollers have become indispensable devices in embedded design. A microcontroller (MCU) is a device that combines the core of a microprocessor (MPU) with features such as I/O ports, timers, some dedicated communication controllers etc. Whereas an MPU needs additional glue logic to interface to the outside world, an MCU is a self-sufficient device as far as Peripheral handling is concerned, due to the availability of rich on-chip resources. Depending on a specific application, the choice of an appropriate MCU can indeed lead to a very efficient design. This course is a brief introductory giving an insight into the PIC18FXXX MCU, and is aimed to explain CCP module and PWM programming.
Indeed the PWM is so widely used that Microchip has enhanced the PWM capabilities of the newer generation of the PIC18 family members and has designated them as ECCP(enhanced CCP).The main difference between ECCP and CCP is the PWM capability.
The speed of the motor depends on three factors : load, voltage, and current. By changing the width of the pulse applied to the Dc motor we can increase or decrease the amount of the power provided to the motor, thereby increasing or decreasing the motor speed. The ability to control the speed of the DC motor using PWM is one reason that DC motors are preferable over AC motors. We use the PWM feature of the CCP to control DC motors.