EXTERNALLY SYNCHRONIZING MULTIPHASE PULSE WIDTH MODULATION SIGNALS

摘要

Waveform errors between multiphase PWM signals caused by external synchronization signals is solved by providing a capture register in a master time base circuit. The capture register is triggered by the external sync signal so as to 'capture' the value of the master time base counter at the occurrence of the rising edge of the external sync signal. This captured counter value is then provided to the local time bases of each of the phase PMW signal generators as the effective PWM period instead of locally stored PWM period values of each PWM signal generator. The captured time base value provided to the individual PWM generator time bases insures that the individual PWM generators remain properly synchronized to the master time base throughout the PWM cycles of all of the phases.