MyHDL ... MyPWM

The PWM topic appears to be popular lately on the fpgarelated site.  This is coincidence, but I typically find the topic of modulating and demodulating signals interesting.  For digital systems it is always entertaining to play with PWMs.  The following PWM RTL description is quite a bit different than the PWM module described by Anton Babushkin.  The module presented here is a minimal PWM engine defined at design time (i.e. not run-time).  

As mentioned, the following is a basic MyHDL module to generate a PWM signal.  This module is intended to be used in an FPGA.  The PWM module is configured for the application at design time and compiled (synthesized, P&R) for a particular FPGA.  Other than the PCM input to the PWM module there are no real-time configurations that occur.  The typical use of a PWM is to configure it for the application and let it run.

To learn more about PWM signals see this overview buried in a filtering example.  The following PWM module has a couple primary parameters: the system clock frequency (attribute of the clock port) and the frequency (1/period) of the output PWM (pwm_frequency).  From these two parameters the number of bits will be determined.  If the PWM number of bits is less than the input, the input will be truncated.

The following is a code snip that exercises the parameters and a summary given the parameters.

>>> from myhdl import *
>>> from myhdl_tools import Clock,Reset
>>> from pwm import m_pwm
>>> cfreq = (50e6,100e6,200e6,333e6,500e6)
>>> pfreq = (.5e3,1e3,10e3)
>>> Xmax,Xmin = (2**15,-2**15)
>>> reset = Reset(0, active=0, async=False)
>>> x = Signal(intbv(0, min=Xmin, max=Xmax))
>>> y = Signal(bool(0))
>>> ts = Signal(bool(0))
>>> for cf in cfreq:
        for pf in pfreq:
            clock = Clock(0, frequency=cf)
            tb_dut = m_pwm(clock,reset,x,y,ts,pwm_frequency=pf)

...
~~~[PWM Module]~~~
 clock frequency ................... 50.000 MHz
 pwm frequency ..................... 1.000 kHz
 local counter max ................. 32768
 pwm number of bits ................ 15
 pwm offset ........................ 32768
 pwm shift ......................... 1

...

~~~[PWM Module]~~~
 clock frequency ................... 500.000 MHz
 pwm frequency ..................... 10.000 kHz
 local counter max ................. 32768
 pwm number of bits ................ 15
 pwm offset ........................ 32768
 pwm shift ......................... 1

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The following is the complete code for the module.

The following is a waveform from a simulation of the module. The waveform shows the input signal (x) and the output modulated signal (y).