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RGb LED Controller

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wcavanagh

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I wonder if someone can help a poor man. I want to colour cycle a RGB LED smoothly through thounds of colours, it will be used to light up a lod etched in glass, so random colours would be great. I have been told PWM is what i need, I have a PICKit1 and a PicstarPlus programmer from Microchip. I am very new to this and just dont know where to start, I have some PIC12F675 Chips. Anyone recomend anything? PLEASE.......
 
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What language are you programming in and what speed are you going to run the 675 at?

Resc.
 
Going to use ASM as that seems to be all i can do with MPLAB, going to use the internal 4Meg clock
 
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4mhz will work for 3-channels ok if you use the correct methods for pwm, as for ASM I can't help you on that.

Resc.
 
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4mhz will work for 3-channels ok if you use the correct methods for pwm, as for ASM I can't help you on that.

Resc.

If he's got the PICKit1 (as he said), it comes with a Lite version of a C compiler - if that helps?.
 
the best way would be to use a TMR0 interupt, then devide it down depending on what value you should have in a file register for each LED.

The TMR0 registrer at 4mhz u might want to use as a global biasing, at the end of the ISR add a value to the TMR0 register.

Thats a pritty rough outline, but it should work fine, you might find a lot of tweaking is needed to get nice linear values (odds are PWM won't provide a smooth change of light intensity with standard linear values)
 
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