TS-7180 PWM

WARNING:

This requires FPGA Rev 11 or later

The TS-7180 provides a single PWM channel, available on DIO_1 (pin #1 of P3-A). Because DIO_1 is a general-purpose IO, to use it as a PWM output it is first necessary to enable such usage by writing to address 309 in the FPGA, as follows:

tshwctl -a 309 -w 1

PWM devices are available though the sysfs filesystem, they will appear at "/sys/class/pwm/pwmchipX/" where X is the PWM channel number. Due to the layout of the PWM controller, each PWM channel is on a separate chip. Normally a single PWM chip can support multiple PWM devices through linux, however in this case each chip only has a single device; pwm0. This device is not enabled by default and must be turned on manually: can be used to control the PWM.

# Each PWM controller has "1" PWM device which will be PWM channel 0
echo 0 > /sys/class/pwm/pwmchipX/export

This will create a pwm0/ directory under each pwmchipX/ directory which will contain the following relevant files.:

period	Total period, inactive and active time in the PWM cycle specified in nanoseconds.
duty_cycle	Active time of the PWM signal specified in nanoseconds. Must be less than the period.
enable	Write 1 to enable, 0 to disable

As an example, this will set a 50khz signal with 50 percent duty cycle on PWM channel 4:

# 20us is the period for 50khz
echo 20000 > /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip4/pwm0/period
echo 10000 > /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip4/pwm0/duty_cycle
echo 1 > /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip4/pwm0/enable

Note:

The DIO pins on the TS-7180 have a 1.5k pull-up, which means that the rise-time on these outputs is relatively slow. Therefore, you might need to add an off-board pull-up to get a faster rise-time.