HRTIM inserting 100% duty cycle pulse into PWM

[JMaty.1]

Hello,

I am working on BLDC driver based on STM32. I am using HRTIM to generate 3 complimentary PWMs at 20Khz in up-down counting mode. Every now and then, a single pulse of the PWM is wrong, like it would have 100% duty cycle. The issue is non periodic (seems to happen in random time intervals, ranging from ~0.1 Hz to ~10Hz), and happens on all channales of the HRTIM. It results in a loud audible noise from the motor.

On the image below you can see an oscilloscope screen of the event. Top curve is current on the one of the motor phases, the lower two are complimentary PWMs (on the STM side, before the mosfet driver). I am using 20 kHz control loop for updating the PWMs duty cycle with normalisation in place to make sure i never accidentally write illegal value to the register. I have tried both with Reload Enabled and Disabled. I have also tied to lower the control loop frequency to 12 kHz and 5 kHz but the issue persisted.

[Laurent Ca...]

Dear @JMaty.1​ 

Could you give more details to the STM32 Community about the material you use (HW and SW, tools and versions, board(s), motor(s) and so on)?

Best regards

Laurent Ca...

[JMaty.1]

I am using a custom board with STM32G474RET clocked form external 16MHz oscillator. The board was designed by an experienced industrial power electronics specialist so i highly doubt in some PCB error or excessive EM noise. Moreover the weird PWM was captured directly on the MCUs pins ( oscilloscope shot atteched to the first post). I've generated init code with CubeIDE v1.4.0 with Cube repositories for G4 v1.2.0. The motor is a generic BLDC motor ~5kW, but earlier test conducted with small TMotor U8 (~500W) , gave same behaviour. One thing i didnt mention is that the HRTIM also triggers the ADCs for current measurement, but i dont think this is important here.

Init Code of the HRTIM:

static void MX_HRTIM1_Init(void)
{
 
 /* USER CODE BEGIN HRTIM1_Init 0 */
 
 /* USER CODE END HRTIM1_Init 0 */
 
 HRTIM_ADCTriggerCfgTypeDef pADCTriggerCfg = {0};
 HRTIM_TimeBaseCfgTypeDef pTimeBaseCfg = {0};
 HRTIM_TimerCfgTypeDef pTimerCfg = {0};
 HRTIM_TimerCtlTypeDef pTimerCtl = {0};
 HRTIM_CompareCfgTypeDef pCompareCfg = {0};
 HRTIM_DeadTimeCfgTypeDef pDeadTimeCfg = {0};
 HRTIM_OutputCfgTypeDef pOutputCfg = {0};
 
 /* USER CODE BEGIN HRTIM1_Init 1 */
 
 /* USER CODE END HRTIM1_Init 1 */
 hhrtim1.Instance = HRTIM1;
 hhrtim1.Init.HRTIMInterruptResquests = HRTIM_IT_NONE;
 hhrtim1.Init.SyncOptions = HRTIM_SYNCOPTION_NONE;
 if (HAL_HRTIM_Init(&hhrtim1) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 if (HAL_HRTIM_DLLCalibrationStart(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_CALIBRATIONRATE_3) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 if (HAL_HRTIM_PollForDLLCalibration(&hhrtim1, 10) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 pADCTriggerCfg.UpdateSource = HRTIM_ADCTRIGGERUPDATE_TIMER_B;
 pADCTriggerCfg.Trigger = HRTIM_ADCTRIGGEREVENT13_TIMERB_PERIOD;
 if (HAL_HRTIM_ADCTriggerConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_ADCTRIGGER_1, &pADCTriggerCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 if (HAL_HRTIM_ADCPostScalerConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_ADCTRIGGER_1, 0x0) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 pTimeBaseCfg.Period = 0xFa00;
 pTimeBaseCfg.RepetitionCounter = 0x00;
 pTimeBaseCfg.PrescalerRatio = HRTIM_PRESCALERRATIO_MUL16;
 pTimeBaseCfg.Mode = HRTIM_MODE_CONTINUOUS;
 if (HAL_HRTIM_TimeBaseConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_MASTER, &pTimeBaseCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 pTimerCfg.InterruptRequests = HRTIM_MASTER_IT_MUPD|HRTIM_MASTER_IT_MUPD;
 pTimerCfg.DMARequests = HRTIM_MASTER_DMA_NONE;
 pTimerCfg.DMASrcAddress = 0x0000;
 pTimerCfg.DMADstAddress = 0x0000;
 pTimerCfg.DMASize = 0x1;
 pTimerCfg.HalfModeEnable = HRTIM_HALFMODE_DISABLED;
 pTimerCfg.InterleavedMode = HRTIM_INTERLEAVED_MODE_DISABLED;
 pTimerCfg.StartOnSync = HRTIM_SYNCSTART_DISABLED;
 pTimerCfg.ResetOnSync = HRTIM_SYNCRESET_DISABLED;
 pTimerCfg.DACSynchro = HRTIM_DACSYNC_NONE;
 pTimerCfg.PreloadEnable = HRTIM_PRELOAD_DISABLED;
 pTimerCfg.UpdateGating = HRTIM_UPDATEGATING_INDEPENDENT;
 pTimerCfg.BurstMode = HRTIM_TIMERBURSTMODE_MAINTAINCLOCK;
 pTimerCfg.RepetitionUpdate = HRTIM_UPDATEONREPETITION_DISABLED;
 pTimerCfg.ReSyncUpdate = HRTIM_TIMERESYNC_UPDATE_UNCONDITIONAL;
 if (HAL_HRTIM_WaveformTimerConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_MASTER, &pTimerCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 pTimeBaseCfg.Period = 0xfa00;
 if (HAL_HRTIM_TimeBaseConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_B, &pTimeBaseCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 pTimerCtl.UpDownMode = HRTIM_TIMERUPDOWNMODE_UPDOWN;
 pTimerCtl.GreaterCMP1 = HRTIM_TIMERGTCMP1_EQUAL;
 pTimerCtl.DualChannelDacEnable = HRTIM_TIMER_DCDE_DISABLED;
 if (HAL_HRTIM_WaveformTimerControl(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_B, &pTimerCtl) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 if (HAL_HRTIM_RollOverModeConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_B, HRTIM_TIM_FEROM_BOTH|HRTIM_TIM_BMROM_BOTH
 |HRTIM_TIM_ADROM_VALLEY|HRTIM_TIM_OUTROM_BOTH
 |HRTIM_TIM_ROM_VALLEY) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 pTimerCfg.InterruptRequests = HRTIM_TIM_IT_UPD|HRTIM_TIM_IT_REP;
 pTimerCfg.DMARequests = HRTIM_TIM_DMA_NONE;
 pTimerCfg.DMASrcAddress = 0x0000;
 pTimerCfg.DMADstAddress = 0x0000;
 pTimerCfg.DMASize = 0x1;
 pTimerCfg.PreloadEnable = HRTIM_PRELOAD_ENABLED;
 pTimerCfg.RepetitionUpdate = HRTIM_UPDATEONREPETITION_ENABLED;
 pTimerCfg.PushPull = HRTIM_TIMPUSHPULLMODE_DISABLED;
 pTimerCfg.FaultEnable = HRTIM_TIMFAULTENABLE_NONE;
 pTimerCfg.FaultLock = HRTIM_TIMFAULTLOCK_READWRITE;
 pTimerCfg.DeadTimeInsertion = HRTIM_TIMDEADTIMEINSERTION_ENABLED;
 pTimerCfg.DelayedProtectionMode = HRTIM_TIMER_A_B_C_DELAYEDPROTECTION_DISABLED;
 pTimerCfg.UpdateTrigger = HRTIM_TIMUPDATETRIGGER_NONE;
 pTimerCfg.ResetTrigger = HRTIM_TIMRESETTRIGGER_NONE;
 pTimerCfg.ResetUpdate = HRTIM_TIMUPDATEONRESET_DISABLED;
 if (HAL_HRTIM_WaveformTimerConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_B, &pTimerCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 pTimerCfg.InterruptRequests = HRTIM_MASTER_IT_MUPD|HRTIM_MASTER_IT_MUPD;
 pTimerCfg.DMASrcAddress = 0x0000;
 pTimerCfg.DMADstAddress = 0x0000;
 pTimerCfg.DMASize = 0x1;
 pTimerCfg.RepetitionUpdate = HRTIM_UPDATEONREPETITION_DISABLED;
 pTimerCfg.DelayedProtectionMode = HRTIM_TIMER_D_E_DELAYEDPROTECTION_DISABLED;
 if (HAL_HRTIM_WaveformTimerConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_E, &pTimerCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 pTimerCfg.InterruptRequests = HRTIM_TIM_IT_NONE;
 pTimerCfg.DMASrcAddress = 0x0000;
 pTimerCfg.DMADstAddress = 0x0000;
 pTimerCfg.DMASize = 0x1;
 pTimerCfg.DelayedProtectionMode = HRTIM_TIMER_F_DELAYEDPROTECTION_DISABLED;
 if (HAL_HRTIM_WaveformTimerConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_F, &pTimerCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 pCompareCfg.CompareValue = 0xfa00;
 if (HAL_HRTIM_WaveformCompareConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_B, HRTIM_COMPAREUNIT_1, &pCompareCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 pDeadTimeCfg.Prescaler = HRTIM_TIMDEADTIME_PRESCALERRATIO_MUL4;
 pDeadTimeCfg.RisingValue = 0x1ff;
 pDeadTimeCfg.RisingSign = HRTIM_TIMDEADTIME_RISINGSIGN_POSITIVE;
 pDeadTimeCfg.RisingLock = HRTIM_TIMDEADTIME_RISINGLOCK_WRITE;
 pDeadTimeCfg.RisingSignLock = HRTIM_TIMDEADTIME_RISINGSIGNLOCK_WRITE;
 pDeadTimeCfg.FallingValue = 0x1ff;
 pDeadTimeCfg.FallingSign = HRTIM_TIMDEADTIME_FALLINGSIGN_POSITIVE;
 pDeadTimeCfg.FallingLock = HRTIM_TIMDEADTIME_FALLINGLOCK_WRITE;
 pDeadTimeCfg.FallingSignLock = HRTIM_TIMDEADTIME_FALLINGSIGNLOCK_WRITE;
 if (HAL_HRTIM_DeadTimeConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_B, &pDeadTimeCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 if (HAL_HRTIM_DeadTimeConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_E, &pDeadTimeCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 if (HAL_HRTIM_DeadTimeConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_F, &pDeadTimeCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 pOutputCfg.Polarity = HRTIM_OUTPUTPOLARITY_HIGH;
 pOutputCfg.SetSource = HRTIM_OUTPUTSET_TIMCMP1;
 pOutputCfg.ResetSource = HRTIM_OUTPUTRESET_NONE;
 pOutputCfg.IdleMode = HRTIM_OUTPUTIDLEMODE_NONE;
 pOutputCfg.IdleLevel = HRTIM_OUTPUTIDLELEVEL_INACTIVE;
 pOutputCfg.FaultLevel = HRTIM_OUTPUTFAULTLEVEL_NONE;
 pOutputCfg.ChopperModeEnable = HRTIM_OUTPUTCHOPPERMODE_DISABLED;
 pOutputCfg.BurstModeEntryDelayed = HRTIM_OUTPUTBURSTMODEENTRY_REGULAR;
 if (HAL_HRTIM_WaveformOutputConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_B, HRTIM_OUTPUT_TB1, &pOutputCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 if (HAL_HRTIM_WaveformOutputConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_E, HRTIM_OUTPUT_TE1, &pOutputCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 if (HAL_HRTIM_WaveformOutputConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_F, HRTIM_OUTPUT_TF1, &pOutputCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 pOutputCfg.SetSource = HRTIM_OUTPUTSET_NONE;
 if (HAL_HRTIM_WaveformOutputConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_B, HRTIM_OUTPUT_TB2, &pOutputCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 if (HAL_HRTIM_WaveformOutputConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_E, HRTIM_OUTPUT_TE2, &pOutputCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 if (HAL_HRTIM_WaveformOutputConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_F, HRTIM_OUTPUT_TF2, &pOutputCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 pTimeBaseCfg.Period = 0xFa00;
 if (HAL_HRTIM_TimeBaseConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_E, &pTimeBaseCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 pTimerCtl.GreaterCMP1 = HRTIM_TIMERGTCMP1_GREATER;
 if (HAL_HRTIM_WaveformTimerControl(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_E, &pTimerCtl) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 if (HAL_HRTIM_RollOverModeConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_E, HRTIM_TIM_FEROM_BOTH|HRTIM_TIM_BMROM_BOTH
 |HRTIM_TIM_ADROM_CREST|HRTIM_TIM_OUTROM_BOTH
 |HRTIM_TIM_ROM_BOTH) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 pCompareCfg.CompareValue = 0xFa00;
 if (HAL_HRTIM_WaveformCompareConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_E, HRTIM_COMPAREUNIT_1, &pCompareCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 if (HAL_HRTIM_TimeBaseConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_F, &pTimeBaseCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 if (HAL_HRTIM_WaveformTimerControl(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_F, &pTimerCtl) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 if (HAL_HRTIM_RollOverModeConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_F, HRTIM_TIM_FEROM_BOTH|HRTIM_TIM_BMROM_BOTH
 |HRTIM_TIM_ADROM_BOTH|HRTIM_TIM_OUTROM_BOTH
 |HRTIM_TIM_ROM_BOTH) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 if (HAL_HRTIM_WaveformCompareConfig(&hhrtim1, HRTIM_TIMERINDEX_TIMER_F, HRTIM_COMPAREUNIT_1, &pCompareCfg) != HAL_OK)
 {
 Error_Handler();
 }
 /* USER CODE BEGIN HRTIM1_Init 2 */
 
 /* USER CODE END HRTIM1_Init 2 */
 HAL_HRTIM_MspPostInit(&hhrtim1);
}

[JMaty.1]

I have also tried with my control algorithm turned off (just throwing raw sine waves to the PWMs) and the issue persists.

I suspect the issue is somehow linked with writing new values to HRTIM registers. This is how i do it:

uint16_t pwm_a = (uint16_t)(a * PWM_MAX);
	uint16_t pwm_b = (uint16_t)(b * PWM_MAX);
	uint16_t pwm_c = (uint16_t)(c * PWM_MAX);
 
	hrtim->Instance->sTimerxRegs[1].CMP1xR = pwm_a;	// Phase A
	hrtim->Instance->sTimerxRegs[4].CMP1xR = pwm_b;	// Phase B
	hrtim->Instance->sTimerxRegs[5].CMP1xR = pwm_c;	// Phase C

When i wrote the values once, i haven't ecnoutered the strange behaviour.

EDIT:

I've tried changing the frequency of both MCU itself as well as for HRTIM instances (TIM_B, TIM_E, TIM_F) , but nothing had an effect on the issue. I've also tried different chip but with no change. Changing clock source from HSE to HSI did nothing either.

[JMaty.1]

UPDATE:

I've also tried LowLevel libraries, but the issue persists.

[Tomas DRESLER]

Dear Maty,

I suspect that your update comes in "wrong" time, because HRTIM PWM doesn't react on comparison with the values, but on exact match between the CMPx register and the counter.

I recommend to turn on preload on all registers and automatic update on reload. This will guarantee synchronous update of all registers without risk of being ignored and causing non-reaction on the channel.

Best regards,

Tomas

[JMaty.1]

Hi Thomas.

I think I've solved my problem. The solution was to enable preload, set update on repetition event (so that updates happen when counter reaches 0), and to switch CMP unit I used from CMP1 to CMP2 . As described in 27.3.12 section of the Reference Manual, CMP1 and CMP3 feature no-latency update, that caused the issue.