Sinusoidal PWM on the STM32F103 Nucleo board

This example was developed in the mbed online compiler. It makes some use of the mbed libraries but goes beyond them to manage interrupts and complimentary PWM outputs.
The switching frequency is 10kHz and the modulating frequency is 50Hz. This example was used to drive a H-bridge with a speaker connected as load. The interesting part of this is that you can hear the 10kHz quite clearly and the 50Hz component amplitude rises and falls as you adjust the potentiometer. The numbers for the sinusoidal duty cycles were calculated by Richard Hayes using octave.
The code makes use of some of STM32 Standard Peripheral Library and avoids the HAL libraries (I’ve had limited success here).

// This program outputs a 50Hz complimentary Sinusoidal PWM signal on PA8 and PB13.
// The switching speed is 10kHz.  The program uses a mix of mbed functions and
// direct register writes.  It makes use of a lookup table generated in Octave (Thanks Richard Hayes)
// and interrupts to update the duty cycle.
// A potentiometer is attached to A0 and this can be used to control the amplitude modulation index.
// Useful reference: http://stm32.kosyak.info/doc/index.html
#include "mbed.h"
// Define some bitmasks
#define BIT0 (1 << 0)
#define BIT1 (1 << 1)
#define BIT2 (1 << 2)
#define BIT3 (1 << 3)
#define BIT4 (1 << 4)
#define BIT5 (1 << 5)
#define BIT6 (1 << 6)
#define BIT7 (1 << 7)
#define BIT8 (1 << 8)
#define BIT9 (1 << 9)
#define BIT10 (1 << 10)
#define BIT11 (1 << 11)
#define BIT12 (1 << 12)
#define BIT13 (1 << 13)
#define BIT14 (1 << 14)
#define BIT15 (1 << 15)
#define BIT16 (1 << 16)
#define BIT17 (1 << 17)
#define BIT18 (1 << 18)
#define BIT19 (1 << 19)
#define BIT20 (1 << 20)
#define BIT21 (1 << 21)
#define BIT22 (1 << 22)
#define BIT23 (1 << 23)
#define BIT24 (1 << 24)
#define BIT25 (1 << 25)
#define BIT26 (1 << 26)
#define BIT27 (1 << 27)
#define BIT28 (1 << 28)
#define BIT29 (1 << 29)
#define BIT30 (1 << 30)
#define BIT31 (1 << 31)
DigitalOut myled(LED1);
const int duties[]={\
    50,51,53,54,56,57,59,60,62,63,65,66,68,69,71,72,74, \
    75,76,78,79,80,81,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,\
    93,94,95,95,96,97,97,98,98,98,99,99,99,99,99,99,100,\
    99,99,99,99,99,99,98,98,98,97,97,96,95,95,94,93,93,\
    92,91,90,89,88,87,86,85,84,83,81,80,79,78,76,75,74,\
    72,71,69,68,66,65,63,62,60,59,57,56,54,53,51,49,48,\
    46,45,43,42,40,39,37,36,34,33,31,30,28,27,25,24,23,\
    21,20,19,18,16,15,14,13,12,11,10,9,8,7,6,6,5,4,4,3,\
    2,2,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,2,2,3,4,4,\
    5,6,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,18,19,20,21,23,24,\
    25,27,28,30,31,33,34,36,37,39,40,42,43,45,46,48\    
};
/*
Pin mappings for Timer 1 (the advanced timer with deadtime)
From: https://developer.mbed.org/users/mbed_official/code/mbed-src/file/a11c0372f0ba/targets/hal/TARGET_STM/TARGET_STM32F1/TARGET_NUCLEO_F103RB/PeripheralPins.c
    {PA_8,  PWM_1, STM_PIN_DATA(STM_MODE_AF_PP, GPIO_PULLUP, 0)}, // TIM1_CH1 - Default
    {PA_9,  PWM_1, STM_PIN_DATA(STM_MODE_AF_PP, GPIO_PULLUP, 0)}, // TIM1_CH2 - Default
    {PA_10, PWM_1, STM_PIN_DATA(STM_MODE_AF_PP, GPIO_PULLUP, 0)}, // TIM1_CH3 - Default
    {PB_13, PWM_1, STM_PIN_DATA(STM_MODE_AF_PP, GPIO_PULLUP, 0)}, // TIM1_CH1N - Default
    {PB_14, PWM_1, STM_PIN_DATA(STM_MODE_AF_PP, GPIO_PULLUP, 0)}, // TIM1_CH2N - Default
    {PB_15, PWM_1, STM_PIN_DATA(STM_MODE_AF_PP, GPIO_PULLUP, 0)}, // TIM1_CH3N - Default
 
*/
// Use mbed to configure the relevant pins as PWM outputs;
PwmOut      PhaATop(PA_8);    
PwmOut      PhaABtm(PB_13);  // This should be the complement of PA_8  
AnalogIn    Pot(A0);
volatile float PotValue;
void init(void);
int main() {    

    init();
    while(1) {
        myled = 1; // LED is ON
        wait(0.1); // 200 ms
        myled = 0; // LED is OFF
        wait(0.1); // 1 sec        
        PotValue = Pot;
    }
}

int ScaleDuty(int Duty,float factor)
{
    float ScaledDuty = Duty;
    ScaledDuty = (ScaledDuty - 50) * factor;
    ScaledDuty = ScaledDuty + 50;
    return ScaledDuty;
}
int index=0;
void TimerISR()
{       
    TIM1->SR &= ~0x3f; // ack the interrupt    
    TIM1->CCR1=ScaleDuty(duties[index++],PotValue); // get the next duty
    if (index > 199)
        index = 0;   
}
void init()
{
    
    RCC->APB2ENR |= BIT2+BIT3;  // enable GPIOA and GPIOB    
    RCC->APB2ENR |= BIT11;      // enable TIM1
    
    GPIOA->CRH |= BIT3+BIT0;    // PA8 output, alternate function
    GPIOB->CRH |= BIT23+BIT20;  // PB13 output, alternate function
    
    TIM1->CR2 = 0;
    TIM1->DIER = BIT0; // Want update interrupt
    NVIC_SetVector(TIM1_UP_IRQn,(uint32_t) TimerISR);   
    NVIC_EnableIRQ(TIM1_UP_IRQn);
    TIM1->SR = 0;      // Clear flags.
    TIM1->CCMR1= BIT6+BIT5+BIT4;
    TIM1->CCER = BIT2+BIT0;
    TIM1->ARR = 100;  // 1MHz = base clock freq.  Divide by 100 to get 10kHz.
    TIM1->CCR1 = 10;  // Low inital duty
    TIM1->CR1 |= BIT0; //enable counter
     __enable_irq();   // enable interrupts

}

One thought on “Sinusoidal PWM on the STM32F103 Nucleo board

  1. Angel Genchev February 1, 2019 / 2:17 am

    There is more effective manner of programming the ccrX – by a DMA request with double buffering. The IRQ on each value can be avoided. Moreover the TIM1 features a repetition counter which allowes to raise the carry frequency n times (by lowering PWM resolution)

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