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Message-ID: <509BAFB9.6090801@antcom.de>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:12:25 +0100
From: Roland Stigge <stigge@...com.de>
To: Alban Bedel <alban.bedel@...onic-design.de>
CC: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Alexandre Pereira da Silva <aletes.xgr@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pwm: lpc32xx - Fix the PWM polarity
On 08/11/12 12:23, Alban Bedel wrote:
>>> It is intended, the formular for duty value in the register is:
>>>
>>> duty = (256 - 256*duty_ns/period_ns) % 256
>>
>> Where does this modulo defined? In the Manual, there is sth. like this
>> defined for RELOADV (tables 606+607), but not for DUTY.
>>
>> Maybe I missed sth. in the manual. Link or hint appreciated!
>
> The manual doesn't mention this explicitly but you can see that without
> the modulo when duty_ns==0 DUTY would be 256, but the register is only
> 8 bits wide (ie. modulo 256). I made a few test and looked at the PWM
> output on a scope they confirm this:
>
> DUTY HIGH LEVEL
> 1 99.9%
> 25 90.0%
> 128 50.0%
> 220 10.0%
> 255 0.1%
> 0 0.0%
>
> I'll resubmit the patch with the clamping in the correct order.
Thanks for measuring. With this, your resubmitted patch make much more
sense now.
Roland
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