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Overview

The general purpose timers (GPTs) support a 16-bit pulse-width modulation (PWM) mode with software-programmable output inversion of the PWM signal. As there are 4 GPTs, there are 8 possible PWM output options (Timer A of TIMERA2 is not available).

Application details

The application uses the following pins to drive the PWM output:

On this LaunchPad, the pins that drive the LEDs are capable of being muxed to drive a PWM output. In this example, the brightness of the LEDs are varied from off to on by varying the duty cycle of the PWM output.

The example generates a PWM output with ~0.5 ms time period. The duty cycle is continuously varied in order to change the brightness and this is done iteratively.

Source Files briefly explained

Usage

  1. Run the reference application.
    • Open the project in CCS/IAR. Build the application and debug to load to the device, or flash the binary using UniFlash.
  2. The brightness of the 3 LEDs (red, green, yellow) incrementally changes from low (off) to high (on). This keeps repeating.

Limitations/Known Issues