03-07-2018 02:48 PM
Does anyone know of a simulated circuit that creates a PWM signal and uses it to modify a created pulsed DC signal to end up with a pulsed DC with the effective voltage of the PWM?
The PWM is +5V at 490Hz with an adjustable duty cycle that will represent +0 to +1.2V and the input pulsed DC is +5V, 18us PW and 3.6ms between pulses.
I am not an expert on this, so please excuse any errors in the description.
Thanks in advance!
03-07-2018 03:28 PM
This sounds like a chopper circuit. At 490Hz the period should be 2.041mS so I don't understand your 3.6ms between pulse.
If you are working on a buck chopper and want a 1.2V output from a 5V supply then you would want a duty cycle of 1.2/5.0 = 24% which would be an on time of 190 uS.
Below are some NI white papers talking about Co-Simulation and H-bridges. I'd start looking through those. The last 3 circuits are H-bridges which are more complicated than your chopper circuit but making simpler circuits once you under stand these should be straight forward. Maybe someone has a better link to a simple half bridge or buck chopper.
http://www.ni.com/white-paper/14316/en/
THEN DO THIS
http://www.ni.com/white-paper/13663/en/
THEN DO THIS
http://www.ni.com/white-paper/13721/en/
http://www.ni.com/white-paper/13840/en/
03-08-2018 07:18 AM
Thank you very much for taking the time to respond.
I
am sorry, but I am afraid that my understanding of circuits is not sufficient enough to have described my situation adequately or to interpret your detailed response.
What I am trying to figure out is a circuit which imposes the effective voltage level of a PWM onto a pulsed DC.
There are 2 inputs:
There is 1 output:
Inputs A and B represent actual inputs provided to a circuit, so the simulation would have to create them.
The 0V to +1.1VDC input to the PWM represents possible values that can change at any time, but do not vary frequently, that is it will be one value for a while and then may change.
I think that the output of the PWM would have to be smoothed to an analog signal and somehow modify the voltage of input B.
Thanks