Experience ultra-responsive pulse generation with LTC6993-2 and PIC32MZ2048EFH100
“One-shot” pulse generator
Published Aug 09, 2023
Click board™
One Shot Click
Dev Board
Flip&Click PIC32MZ
Compiler
NECTO Studio
MCU
PIC32MZ2048EFH100
Create accurately timed pulses, and ensure synchronized operations in various systems and devices
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Hardware Overview
How does it work?
One Shot Click is based on the LTC6993-2, a monostable multivibrator (also known as a "one-shot" pulse generator) with a programmable pulse width of 1μs to 33.6 seconds from Analog Devices. The LTC6993-2 is part of the TimerBlox® family of versatile silicon timing devices. A single resistor, RSET, programs an internal master oscillator frequency, setting the LTC6993's time base. The output pulse width is determined by this master oscillator and an internal clock divider, NDIV, programmable to eight settings from 1 to 221. The output pulse is initiated by a transition on the trigger input (TRIG). Each part can be configured to generate positive or negative output pulses. The LTC6993-2 has four versions to provide different trigger signal polarity and retrigger capability. Besides that, LTC6993-2 also offers the ability to dynamically adjust the width of the output pulse via a separate control voltage brought to the SET
pin of the IC. A simple trimmer or potentiometer could be used; however, due to reliability reasons, the AD5241 digital potentiometer is used for that purpose on One Shot Click. The word is also about a 256-position digital potentiometer with a low-temperature coefficient (30 ppm/°C) from Analog Devices. The AD5241 communicates with the microcontroller over the standard I2C interface so that the user can easily control and precisely calculate the output pulse width just by simply setting the wiper value in the AD5241 registers. One Shot Click also contains the multi-turn trimmer wired as a resistor divider between V+ and GND and brought to the DIV pin of the LTC6993-2. The DIV pin is the programmable divider and polarity input. The polarity input, which pin voltage is internally converted into a 4-bit result (DIVCODE). The MSB of DIVCODE (POL) determines the polarity of the OUT pins. When
POL = 0, the output produces a positive pulse. When POL = 1, the output produces a negative pulse. That way, the user can easily set the output pulse width range, and polarity by setting the desired voltage on the trimmer mentioned (VR1). This Click also contains test points to ease the user's access to the referent voltage. One can separate the trimmer from the rest of the circuit using the separation switch (SW1), then precisely set and measure the desired voltage and turn the switch back in the ON position. This Click board™ can operate with either 3.3V or 5V logic voltage levels selected via the VCC SEL jumper. This way, both 3.3V and 5V capable MCUs can use the communication lines properly. Also, this Click board™ comes equipped with a library containing easy-to-use functions and an example code that can be used, as a reference, for further development.
Features overview
Development board
Flip&Click PIC32MZ is a compact development board designed as a complete solution that brings the flexibility of add-on Click boards™ to your favorite microcontroller, making it a perfect starter kit for implementing your ideas. It comes with an onboard 32-bit PIC32MZ microcontroller, the PIC32MZ2048EFH100 from Microchip, four mikroBUS™ sockets for Click board™ connectivity, two USB connectors, LED indicators, buttons, debugger/programmer connectors, and two headers compatible with Arduino-UNO pinout. Thanks to innovative manufacturing technology,
it allows you to build gadgets with unique functionalities and features quickly. Each part of the Flip&Click PIC32MZ development kit contains the components necessary for the most efficient operation of the same board. In addition, there is the possibility of choosing the Flip&Click PIC32MZ programming method, using the chipKIT bootloader (Arduino-style development environment) or our USB HID bootloader using mikroC, mikroBasic, and mikroPascal for PIC32. This kit includes a clean and regulated power supply block through the USB Type-C (USB-C) connector. All communication
methods that mikroBUS™ itself supports are on this board, including the well-established mikroBUS™ socket, user-configurable buttons, and LED indicators. Flip&Click PIC32MZ development kit allows you to create a new application in minutes. Natively supported by Mikroe software tools, it covers many aspects of prototyping thanks to a considerable number of different Click boards™ (over a thousand boards), the number of which is growing every day.
Microcontroller Overview
MCU Card / MCU
Architecture
PIC32
MCU Memory (KB)
2048
Silicon Vendor
Microchip
Pin count
100
RAM (Bytes)
524288
Used MCU Pins
mikroBUS™ mapper
Take a closer look
Click board™ Schematic
Step by step
Project assembly
Start by selecting your development board and Click board™. Begin with the Flip&Click PIC32MZ as your development board.
Track your results in real time
Application Output via Debug Mode
1. Once the code example is loaded, pressing the "DEBUG" button initiates the build process, programs it on the created setup, and enters Debug mode.
2. After the programming is completed, a header with buttons for various actions within the IDE becomes visible. Clicking the green "PLAY" button starts reading the results achieved with the Click board™. The achieved results are displayed in the Application Output tab.
Software Support
Library Description
This library contains API for One Shot Click driver.
Key functions:
oneshot_get_resistance- This function reads the resistance data from the AD5241 chiponeshot_digital_read_rst- This function reads the digital signal from the RST pinoneshot_digital_write_cs- This function writes the specified digital signal to the CS pin
Open Source
Code example
This example can be found in NECTO Studio. Feel free to download the code, or you can copy the code below.
/*!
* \file
* \brief OneShot Click example
*
* # Description
* This example shows the user how to configure and use the One Shot click. The click has a
* monostable monovibrator which cam generate a pulse of width between 1μs and 33.6 seconds.
*
* The demo application is composed of two sections :
*
* ## Application Init
* This function initializes and configures the logger and click modules. Resistance data,
* acquired from the AD5241, is displayed at the end of the initialization process.
*
* ## Application Task
* This function triggers one shot every 8 seconds.
*
* \author MikroE Team
*
*/
// ------------------------------------------------------------------- INCLUDES
#include "board.h"
#include "log.h"
#include "oneshot.h"
// ------------------------------------------------------------------ VARIABLES
static oneshot_t oneshot;
static log_t logger;
// ------------------------------------------------------ APPLICATION FUNCTIONS
void application_init ( )
{
log_cfg_t log_cfg;
oneshot_cfg_t cfg;
/**
* Logger initialization.
* Default baud rate: 115200
* Default log level: LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG
* @note If USB_UART_RX and USB_UART_TX
* are defined as HAL_PIN_NC, you will
* need to define them manually for log to work.
* See @b LOG_MAP_USB_UART macro definition for detailed explanation.
*/
LOG_MAP_USB_UART( log_cfg );
log_init( &logger, &log_cfg );
log_info( &logger, "---- Application Init ----" );
// Click initialization.
oneshot_cfg_setup( &cfg );
ONESHOT_MAP_MIKROBUS( cfg, MIKROBUS_1 );
oneshot_init( &oneshot, &cfg );
Delay_100ms( );
oneshot_default_cfg( &oneshot );
Delay_100ms( );
log_printf( &logger, " * Resistance: %.1f Ohm\r\n", oneshot_get_resistance( &oneshot ) );
}
void application_task ( )
{
oneshot_digital_write_cs( &oneshot, 1 );
Delay_ms( 1 );
oneshot_digital_write_cs( &oneshot, 0 );
log_printf( &logger, " * One shot triggered \r\n" );
log_printf( &logger, " --------------------------- \r\n" );
Delay_ms( 8000 );
}
void main ( )
{
application_init( );
for ( ; ; )
{
application_task( );
}
}
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------ END
