Using PIC and PWM to control LED brightness

Hi,

Anyone know how to using PIC and PWM to control LED brightness?

How to interface to PC and writing a software program to control LED brightness?

Is using assembly language or PicBasic?

Thanks!!

 

Hi Seng,

Maybe you could try a PICAXE and some simple free software that is provided. Jump to this link ... http://www.picaxe.orcon.net.nz/

Ah Pek

 

The Picaxe family ( there are now 8 of them !) are all based upon normal Pic micro microcontrollers, BUT have a bootstrap high level interpreter added by the clever UK marketers ( Revolution Education ). Such user friendliness amazingly comes at almost NO extra cost either ! Programming is ultra simple (2 resistors via a serial port ) & the Windows editor is FREE. Chip prices start at ~ US$3 for the current hottest Picaxe - an 8 pin " 08M ". Recommended !
There's a VERY helpful searchable forum => www.picaxe.com <=

Picaxes have been an electronics sensation especially in Australia/NZ ( thanks largely to a series of "Silicon Chip" magazine articles ) & users often manage more in a few hours that they'd have been able to in weeks otherwise. Code, in Basic Stamp style PBASIC, makes LED flashing etc almost trivial. Hence -

ledflash: ' simple LED flash routine for any Picaxe
High 1 ' turns output pin 1 on & lights attached LED
Wait 1 ' keeps in on 1 second
Low 1 ' turns output pin 1 off ( LED thus goes out)
Wait 1 ' keeps it off 1 second
Goto ledflash ' repeats procedure

Many powerful commands are inbuilt - EEPROM storage, DS18B20 reading, SONY style infra red decoding/encoding, PWM, interrupts , servos, sounds etc a breeze.

There are agents in Aus/NZ/Singapore etc, but global sales via Rev.Ed in UK are extremely fast ( although air freight can double cost if only a small order ) - I've had deliveries here to NZ in just 4 days . Go for them ! Stan. in NZ

 

Just giving a nod to the PicAxe. Cheap, tiny and effective. Love em.

 

i hav dabbled arnd with pic16f84 for sometime , do u want some assembly code for doing pwm with 16f84 ? plz reply if u do
what i plan is this
u can input ur pattern (ie ur duty cycle etc on portb)
then that appears on one pin which can be used for driving the led
the pattern can be changed by an interrupt and then loading the new duty cycle etc ,interested ?

 

hi ....

i would b intrsted in looking at ur assembly code.
am wrking in a related project using LEds.

 

I had trouble finding PWM code for LEDs - despite the fact that "it's all over the net" - I did find some code, and I've modified and tested for working on a PicAxe08M:

http://rad.usuhs.edu/medpix/medpix.html?mode=single&recnum=9204&table=card&srchstr=&search=#top

 

Maxim IC, Linear Tech, and many other companies have LED drivers with PWM built in. I'm not sure how you would adjust the brightness with the PWM but I'm sure it mentions it in each of the parts specs.