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They didn’t need to check 255, but whatever, there is lots of stuff in the Arduino core which isn’t necessary.īut, the Arduino developers (Wiring maybe, this is old stuff) could easily have solved this in a much more efficient way by simply using the inverted Fast PWM mode instead of non-inverted.

#ARDUINO ANALOGWRITE HIGH LOW FULL#

The reason for the 0/255 check is simply that using Fast PWM you can not go to zero, when you are say using an LED under PWM, having it not go to zero is very noticeable, it’s effectively a runt pulse as I recall (not a full 1/256) as the counter rolls to zero. Posted in Arduino Hacks Tagged arduino, duty-cycle, pwm Post navigation We also have our own video from way back in 2011 about PWM. We’ve looked at PWM on FPGAs at least once, and that post gives some background on PWM in any application. The video explains it all in great detail. After that, writing to OCR1A and OCR1B set the PWM value. The DDRB register sets the pin as an output. There’s initial set up of the TCCR1A and TCCR1B registers along with ICR1. In all fairness, the Arduino library doesn’t provide you a way to invert the output, so you’ve already broken the abstraction and that’s why this isn’t technically a bug in the library.

Oddly, the 255 case appears to be superfluous in the normal case but is also backward if you invert the output.

#ARDUINO ANALOGWRITE HIGH LOW CODE#

You can see the source code responsible, below. When inverted, however, the pin still goes low when it ought to go high. The Arduino library authors elected to detect that edge case and just force the output pin to go low in that case. But at the low end, a zero counterintuitively gives you 1/256. That’s great on the high end where 255 is treated as 256 out of 256. That is, the actual count is the count you supply plus one. Setting the PWM hardware to zero still causes a one tick output to occur. The video does a good job of framing the issue. The issue arose when broke the abstraction to invert the PWM output. The Arduino library gives you a wrapper called analogWrite - especially handy if you are not using an Atmel CPU where the same abstraction will do the same work. The Atmel CPU’s hardware is doing the work. Of course, neither the Arduino library nor code is actually producing PWM.

Recently, he revisited the issue and used his own PWM code to fix the problem. A few months ago, found a problem using the Arduino library for PWM. After all, few of us can create our own wire, our own transistors, or our own integrated circuits.

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