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Description

The ML605EX1 PWM Out block is used to produce PWM signals on the digital output lines of an OP525x carrier connected to an ML605 card.

Two inputs are used to generate PWM signal: the carrier frequency and the duty cycle. These values are transferred to the ML605 bitstream from the RT-LAB model through one DataIn port of the bitstream, via the PCIe bus of the target computer.

The shape of PWM signals are defined by the polarity, the dead time between complementary signals, the initial phase. These parameters do not need to be sent at each step so the LoadIn port assigned to PWMO is used to transfer them to the ML605 bitstream.

Each ML605 bitstream using digital output channels in PWM Out mode comes with a configuration file which lists the LoadIn port, the DataIn port number and its corresponding OP525x location in the system. The configuration file name is the same as the bitstream file name entered in the OpCtrl ML605EX1 block, with the extension .conf instead of .bin.

This configuration file uses three parameters to describe the selection of the OP525x channels:

• the Slot number (in the range 1 to 4) is the slot of the backplane connected to the ML605 in which the Digital Output module is installed,
• the Section A or B is a subset of 32 lines of the OP525x carrier. For example, with the 32 In/32Out OP5251 carriers, section A refers to the 32 input lines and section B to the 32 output lines,
• the Sub-Section, 1 to 4, is a subset of 8 data values connected to the port: subset 1 returns values for the 8 first channels of one section of the OP5251, subset 2 returns values for the 8 next channels, etc.

The user must refer to the configuration file for selecting the port number for the desired digital output channels. The ML605EX1 PWM Out block then parses the configuration file and displays the Slot, Section and Sub-section values corresponding to the port number in the 'Slot infos' parameter. During the parsing of the configuration file, the block retrieves also the matching LoadIn port.

The maximum number of digital output channels controlled by one ML605EX1 PWM Out is limited by the size of the subset of channels in one sub-section, which is fixed to 8 in the current implementation.

Parameters

Output complementary channel: When selected, the PWM block generates the complementary signal and the number of PWM channels is divided per 2. The other channels are used to generate the complementary PWM signal according to Figure 2 below.

Dead time value (seconds): This parameter is available only if a complementary waveform is requested. It corresponds of the duration of this dead time, in seconds. Note that the inclusion of a dead time will reduce the length of the active phase of the two complementary waveforms, thus reducing the duty cycle. This value is in seconds. When 'Polarity' is 'Active Low', the PWM signal is set to '1' during the delay specified by the 'Dead Time value' parameter and if 'Polarity' is 'Active High', the PWM signal is set to '0'. The dead time range is [0.01 10,23] µs.

Initial phase [0..1]: This parameter is used to specify the phase between each PWM signal and the carrier wave. Then, it is a vector (1 x n) where n is the number of PWM signals generated. The initial phase of the carrier is expressed as a cycle ratio, between 0 and 1. It is quantized to the nearest 1/1000.

Update Duty Cycle: This parameter is only available only if asymmetric mode is requested.There are two options available:

At each PWM period: One duty value should be provided for each channel being used. It applies for the full PWM period.

At half PWM period: This option allows using two different values for the duty, one for each half of the PWM period. When this option is selected, two values of Duty for each channel, Dx_1 (Channel x first PWM half period and Dx_2 second PWM half period), must be sent to the block. If all 8 channels are being used, then the size of the vector received by the Duty input should be 16 and its structure should be[D0_1,D0_2,D1_1,D1_2,....,D8_1,D8_2], where the first two values correspond to Channel 0, 1st and 2nd duty value, then Channel 1, 1st and second duty value, and so on.

Inputs

Hz: This input sets the PWM carrier frequency. The value should be provided in Hz.

Duty cycle: This input is the duty cycle. Its should be inside the [0,1] range. When the value is out of range, the duty cycle is saturated.

Outputs

The Status output returns the following values:

Characteristics and Limitations