Three-phase pulse width modulation waveform generator

• US 6,448,827 B1
• Filed: 11/27/2000
• Issued: 09/10/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Tojima, Hidetoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Callahan, Timothy P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Luu, An T.
• Application Number:
  US09/722,013
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• Field of Search: 327/172, 327/173, 327/174, 327/175, 327/178, 377/124, 377/125, 377/126, 377/44, 377/45, 377/46
• US Class Current: 327/172
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/025 for functions having two-valued amplitude, e.g. Walsh functions
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/53873 with digital control
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 7/08 Duration or width modulation ; Duty cycle modulation

Abstract

The present invention provides a three-phase pulse width modulation waveform generator having at least an up-down counting circuitry which comprises: an up-down counter for performing an up-count or a down-count upon an external input of a count clock signal; and a count controller having an output side connected to an input side of the up-down counter for sending the input side of the up-down counter a count enable signal which enables the up-down counter to perform the up-count or the down-count.

Claims

1. A three-phase pulse width modulation waveform generator having at least an up-down counting circuitry which comprises:

an up-down counter for performing an up-count or a down-count upon an external input of a count clock signal; and

a count controller having an output side connected to an input side of said up-down counter for sending said input side of said up-down counter a count enable signal which enables said up-down counter to perform said up-count or said down-count;

wherein said count controller has an input side which is connected to said up-down counter for receiving a count direction switching signal from said up-down counter, so that said count controller changes a cycle for generating said count enable signal in accordance with said count direction switching signal; and

wherein said input side of said count controller receives said count clock and counts said count clock, so that if a counted value of said count clock by said count controller is made to correspond to a predetermined value stored in said count controller, then said count controller generates said count enable signal.

2. The three-phase pulse width modulation waveform, generator as claimed in claim 1, wherein said up-down counter generates said count direction switching signal upon receipt of a next effective input of said count clock during when said up-down counter receives said count enable signal from said count controller.

3. The three-phase pulse width modulation waveform generator as claimed in claim 2, wherein said count controller comprises:

a clock counter receiving said count clock and counting said count clock; and

a counting register for storing a registered counting value; and

a comparator being connected to said counting register for receiving said registered counting value from said counting register, said comparator being also connected to said clock counter for receiving a counted value from said clock counter, said comparator being also connected to said up-down counter, and said comparator comparing said counted value to said registered counting value and transmitting a count enable signal to said up-down counter when said counted value corresponds to said registered counting value.

4. The three-phase pulse width modulation waveform generator as claimed in claim 3, wherein said count controller further comprises:

an AND-logic gate having a first input terminal receiving a count direction switching monitoring signal externally inputted and a second input terminal connected to an output terminal of said comparator for receiving said count enable signal from said comparator, said AND-logic gate performing an AND-operation of a value of said count direction switching monitoring signal and a value of said count enable signal to generate a count renewal enable signal, and said AND-logic gate having an output terminal connected to said counting register for transmitting said value of said count direction switching monitoring signal to said counted register.

5. The three-phase pulse width modulation waveform generator as claimed in claim 4, wherein said count controller further more comprises:

a buffer register connected to said counting register for allowing a central processing unit to re-write a counting value and for transmitting a counting value to said counting register at the same time when said AND-logic gate generates said count renewal enable signal.

6. The three-phase pulse width modulation waveform generator as claimed in claim 2, wherein said count controller comprises:

a buffer register connected to said counting register for allowing a central processing unit to re-write a counting value stored in said buffer register;

a down-counter connected to said buffer register for receiving said counting value from said buffer register, said down-counter also receiving a count clock for counting said count clock, and said down-counter generating a count enable signal; and

an AND-logic gate having a first input terminal receiving a count direction switching monitoring signal externally inputted and a second input terminal connected to an output terminal of said down-counter for receiving said count enable signal from said down-counter, said AND-logic gate performing an AND-operation of a value of said count direction switching monitoring signal and a value of said count enable signal to generate a load enable signal, and said AND-logic gate having an output terminal connected to said down-counter for transmitting said load enable signal to said down-counter.

7. An up-down counting circuitry in a pulse width modulation waveform generator circuit, said up-down counting circuitry comprising:

an up-down counter for performing an up-count or a down-count upon an external input of a count clock signal; and

a count controller having an output side connected to an input side of said up-down counter for sending said input side of said up-down counter a count enable signal which enables said up-down counter to perform said up-count or said down-count;

wherein said count controller has an input side which is connected to said up-down counter for receiving a count direction switching signal from said up-down counter, so that said count controller changes a cycle for generating said count enable signal in accordance with said count direction switching signal; and

wherein said input side of said count controller receives said count clock and counts said count clock, so that if a counted value of said count clock by said count controller is made to correspond to a predetermined value stored in said count controller, then said count controller generates said count enable signal.

8. The up-down counting circuitry as claimed in claim 7, wherein said up-down counter generates said count direction switching signal upon receipt of a next effective input of said count clock during when said up-down counter receives said count enable signal from said count controller.

9. The up-down counting circuitry as claimed in claim 8, wherein said count controller comprises:

a clock counter receiving said count clock and counting said count clock; and

a counting register for storing a registered counting value; and

a comparator being connected to said counting register for receiving said registered counting value from said counting register, said comparator being also connected to said clock counter for receiving a counted value from, said clock counter, said comparator being also connected to said up-down counter, and said comparator comparing said counted value to said registered counting value and transmitting a count enable signal to said up-down counter when said counted value corresponds to said registered counting value.

10. The up-down counting circuitry as claimed in claim 9, wherein said count controller further comprises:

an AND-logic gate having a first input terminal receiving a count direction switching monitoring signal externally inputted and a second input terminal connected to an output terminal of said comparator for receiving said count enable signal from said comparator, said AND-logic gate performing an AND-operation of a value of said count direction switching monitoring signal and a value of said count enable signal to generate a count renewal enable signal, and said AND-logic gate having an output terminal connected to said counting register for transmitting said value of said count direction switching monitoring signal to said counted register.

11. The up-down counting circuitry as claimed in claim 10, wherein said count controller further more comprises:

a buffer register connected to said counting register for allowing a central processing unit to re-write a counting value and for transmitting a counting value to said counting register at the same time when said AND-logic gate generates said count renewal enable signal.

12. The up-down counting circuitry as claimed in claim 8, wherein said count controller comprises:

a buffer register connected to said counting register for allowing a central processing unit to re-write a counting value stored in said buffer register;

a down-counter connected to said buffer register for receiving said counting value from said buffer register, said down-counter also receiving a count clock for counting said count clock, and said down-counter generating a count enable signal; and

an AND-logic gate having a first input terminal receiving a count direction switching monitoring signal externally inputted and a second input terminal connected to an output terminal of said down-counter for receiving said count enable signal from said down-counter, said AND-logic gate performing an AND-operation of a value of said count direction switching monitoring signal and a value of said count enable signal to generate a load enable signal, and said AND-logic gate having an output terminal connected to said down-counter for transmitting said load enable signal to said down-counter.