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</li> <li id="toc-Direct_torque_control_(DTC)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Direct_torque_control_(DTC)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Direct torque control (DTC)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Direct_torque_control_(DTC)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-PWM_sampling_theorem" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#PWM_sampling_theorem"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7</span> <span>PWM sampling theorem</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-PWM_sampling_theorem-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Applications" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Applications"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Applications</span> </div> </a> <button 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vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Electrical"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.6</span> <span>Electrical</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Electrical-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Soft-blinking_LED_indicator" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Soft-blinking_LED_indicator"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.7</span> <span>Soft-blinking LED indicator</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Soft-blinking_LED_indicator-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" 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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%8B%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%8F" title="Шыротна-імпульсная мадуляцыя – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Шыротна-імпульсная мадуляцыя" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulaci%C3%B3_per_amplada_de_polsos" title="Modulació per amplada de polsos – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Modulació per amplada de polsos" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulzn%C4%9B_%C5%A1%C3%AD%C5%99kov%C3%A1_modulace" title="Pulzně šířková modulace – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Pulzně šířková modulace" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsbreddemodulation" title="Pulsbreddemodulation – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Pulsbreddemodulation" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsdauermodulation" title="Pulsdauermodulation – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Pulsdauermodulation" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsilaiusmodulatsioon" title="Pulsilaiusmodulatsioon – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Pulsilaiusmodulatsioon" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulaci%C3%B3n_por_ancho_de_pulsos" title="Modulación por ancho de pulsos – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Modulación por ancho de pulsos" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pultsu_zabalera_modulazio" title="Pultsu zabalera modulazio – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Pultsu zabalera modulazio" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%BE%D9%87%D9%86%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3" title="مدولاسیون پهنای پالس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="مدولاسیون پهنای پالس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulation_de_largeur_d%27impulsion" title="Modulation de largeur d'impulsion – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Modulation de largeur d'impulsion" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8E%84%EC%8A%A4_%ED%8F%AD_%EB%B3%80%EC%A1%B0" title="펄스 폭 변조 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="펄스 폭 변조" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6-%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%A8" title="स्पंद-विस्तार मॉडुलन – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="स्पंद-विस्तार मॉडुलन" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulasi_lebar_pulsa" title="Modulasi lebar pulsa – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Modulasi lebar pulsa" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulazione_di_larghezza_d%27impulso" title="Modulazione di larghezza d'impulso – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Modulazione di larghezza d'impulso" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulsu_platuma_modul%C4%81cija" title="Impulsu platuma modulācija – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Impulsu platuma modulācija" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulzussz%C3%A9less%C3%A9g-modul%C3%A1ci%C3%B3" title="Impulzusszélesség-moduláció – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Impulzusszélesség-moduláció" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81_%D3%A9%D1%80%D0%B3%D3%A9%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%86" title="Импульс өргөний модуляц – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Импульс өргөний модуляц" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsbreedtemodulatie" title="Pulsbreedtemodulatie – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Pulsbreedtemodulatie" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B9%E5%B9%85%E5%A4%89%E8%AA%BF" title="パルス幅変調 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="パルス幅変調" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsbreddemodulasjon" title="Pulsbreddemodulasjon – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Pulsbreddemodulasjon" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulacja_szeroko%C5%9Bci_impuls%C3%B3w" title="Modulacja szerokości impulsów – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Modulacja szerokości impulsów" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula%C3%A7%C3%A3o_por_largura_de_pulso" title="Modulação por largura de pulso – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Modulação por largura de pulso" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Широтно-импульсная 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class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Representation of a signal as a rectangular wave with varying duty cycle</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Pulsewidth" redirects here. 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This article doesn't actually talk about such 3-level PWM signals, but only deals with on-off 2-level PWM signals, so maybe this isn't the best intro picture without more explanation. (February 2024)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> in an idealized inductor driven by a <span style="color:blue; font-size:100%; line-height:1;" title="Blue">■</span> voltage source modulated as a series of pulses, resulting in a <span style="color:red; font-size:100%; line-height:1;" title="Red">■</span> sine-like current in the inductor. The rectangular voltage pulses nonetheless result in a more and more smooth current waveform, as the <i>switching frequency</i> increases. 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<li><a href="/wiki/Frequency_modulation" title="Frequency modulation">FM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phase_modulation" title="Phase modulation">PM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulation" title="Quadrature amplitude modulation">QAM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_modulation" title="Space modulation">SM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Single-sideband_modulation" title="Single-sideband modulation">SSB</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background-color: #cfc"> <a href="/wiki/Modulation#Digital_modulation_methods" title="Modulation">Digital modulation</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amplitude-shift_keying" title="Amplitude-shift keying">ASK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amplitude_and_phase-shift_keying" title="Amplitude and phase-shift keying">APSK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continuous_phase_modulation" title="Continuous phase modulation">CPM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frequency-shift_keying" title="Frequency-shift keying">FSK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multiple_frequency-shift_keying" title="Multiple frequency-shift keying">MFSK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minimum-shift_keying" title="Minimum-shift keying">MSK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/On%E2%80%93off_keying" title="On–off keying">OOK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulse-position_modulation" title="Pulse-position modulation">PPM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phase-shift_keying" title="Phase-shift keying">PSK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulation" title="Quadrature amplitude modulation">QAM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Single-carrier_FDMA" title="Single-carrier FDMA">SC-FDE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trellis_coded_modulation" title="Trellis coded modulation">TCM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TC-PAM" title="TC-PAM">TC-PAM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wavelet_modulation" title="Wavelet modulation">WDM</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background-color: #cfc"> <a href="/wiki/Hierarchical_modulation" title="Hierarchical modulation">Hierarchical modulation</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulation" title="Quadrature amplitude modulation">QAM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wavelet_modulation" title="Wavelet modulation">WDM</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background-color: #cfc"> <a href="/wiki/Spread_spectrum" title="Spread spectrum">Spread spectrum</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chirp_spread_spectrum" title="Chirp spread spectrum">CSS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Direct-sequence_spread_spectrum" title="Direct-sequence spread spectrum">DSSS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frequency-hopping_spread_spectrum" title="Frequency-hopping spread spectrum">FHSS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Time-hopping" title="Time-hopping">THSS</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background-color: #cfc"> See 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href="/wiki/Orthogonal_frequency-division_multiplexing" title="Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing">OFDM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frequency-division_multiplexing" title="Frequency-division multiplexing">FDM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multiplexing" title="Multiplexing">Multiplexing</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar 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href="/wiki/Amplitude" title="Amplitude">amplitude</a> delivered by an electrical signal. The average value of <a href="/wiki/Volt" title="Volt">voltage</a> (and <a href="/wiki/Electric_current" title="Electric current">current</a>) fed to the <a href="/wiki/Electrical_load" title="Electrical load">load</a> is controlled by switching the supply between 0 and 100% at a rate faster than it takes the load to change significantly. The longer the switch is on, the higher the total power supplied to the load. Along with <a href="/wiki/Maximum_power_point_tracking" title="Maximum power point tracking">maximum power point tracking</a> (MPPT), it is one of the primary methods of controlling the output of solar panels to that which can be utilized by a battery.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> PWM is particularly suited for running inertial loads such as motors, which are not as easily affected by this discrete switching. The goal of PWM is to control a load; however, the PWM switching frequency must be selected carefully in order to smoothly do so. </p><p>The PWM switching frequency can vary greatly depending on load and application. For example, switching only has to be done several times a minute in an electric stove; 100 or 120 <a href="/wiki/Hz" class="mw-redirect" title="Hz">Hz</a> (double of the <a href="/wiki/Utility_frequency" title="Utility frequency">utility frequency</a>) in a <a href="/wiki/Dimmer" title="Dimmer">lamp dimmer</a>; between a few kilohertz (kHz) and tens of kHz for a motor drive; and well into the tens or hundreds of kHz in audio amplifiers and computer power supplies. Choosing a switching frequency that is too high for the application may cause premature failure of mechanical control components despite getting smooth control of the load. Selecting a switching frequency that is too low for the application causes oscillations in the load. The main advantage of PWM is that power loss in the switching devices is very low. When a switch is off there is practically no current, and when it is on and power is being transferred to the load, there is almost no voltage drop across the switch. Power loss, being the product of voltage and current, is thus in both cases close to zero. PWM also works well with digital controls, which, because of their on/off nature, can easily set the needed duty cycle. PWM has also been used in certain communication systems where its duty cycle has been used to convey information over a communications channel. </p><p>In electronics, many modern <a href="/wiki/Microcontroller" title="Microcontroller">microcontrollers</a> (MCUs) integrate <b>PWM controllers</b> exposed to external pins as peripheral devices under <a href="/wiki/Firmware" title="Firmware">firmware</a> control. These are commonly used for <a href="/wiki/Direct_current" title="Direct current">direct current</a> (DC) <a href="/wiki/Motor_controller" title="Motor controller">motor control</a> in <a href="/wiki/Robotics" title="Robotics">robotics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Switched-mode_power_supply" title="Switched-mode power supply">switched-mode power supply</a> regulation, and other applications. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Duty_cycle">Duty cycle</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Duty cycle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The term <i><a href="/wiki/Duty_cycle" title="Duty cycle">duty cycle</a></i> describes the proportion of 'on' time to the regular interval or 'period' of time; a low duty cycle corresponds to low power, because the power is off for most of the time. Duty cycle is expressed in percent, 100% being fully on. When a digital signal is on half of the time and off the other half of the time, the digital signal has a duty cycle of 50% and resembles a "square" wave. When a digital signal spends more time in the on state than the off state, it has a duty cycle of >50%. When a digital signal spends more time in the off state than the on state, it has a duty cycle of <50%. Here is a pictorial that illustrates these three scenarios: </p><p><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Duty_Cycle_Examples.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Duty_Cycle_Examples.png/400px-Duty_Cycle_Examples.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="252" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Duty_Cycle_Examples.png 1.5x" data-file-width="542" data-file-height="342" /></a></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Corliss_steam_engine" title="Corliss steam engine">Corliss steam engine</a> was patented in 1849. It used pulse-width modulation to control the intake valve of a steam engine cylinder. A <a href="/wiki/Centrifugal_governor" title="Centrifugal governor">centrifugal governor</a> was used to provide automatic feedback. </p><p>Some machines (such as a <a href="/wiki/Sewing_machine" title="Sewing machine">sewing machine</a> motor) require partial or variable power. In the past, control (such as in a sewing machine's foot pedal) was implemented by use of a <a href="/wiki/Rheostat" class="mw-redirect" title="Rheostat">rheostat</a> connected in series with the motor to adjust the amount of current flowing through the motor. It was an inefficient scheme, as this also wasted power as heat in the resistor element of the rheostat, but tolerable because the total power was low. While the rheostat was one of several methods of controlling power (see <a href="/wiki/Autotransformer" title="Autotransformer">autotransformers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Variac" class="mw-redirect" title="Variac">Variac</a> for more info), a low cost and efficient power switching/adjustment method was yet to be found. This mechanism also needed to be able to drive motors for fans, pumps and <a href="/wiki/Robotic" class="mw-redirect" title="Robotic">robotic</a> <a href="/wiki/Servomechanism" title="Servomechanism">servomechanisms</a>, and needed to be compact enough to interface with lamp dimmers. PWM emerged as a solution for this complex problem. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Philips" title="Philips">Philips, N. V.</a> company designed an optical scanning system (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pearl-hifi.com/06_Lit_Archive/02_PEARL_Arch/Vol_16/Sec_53/Philips_Tech_Review/PTechReview-08-1946-097.pdf">published</a> in 1946) for <a href="/wiki/Optical_sound" title="Optical sound">variable area</a> film <a href="/wiki/Soundtrack" title="Soundtrack">soundtrack</a> which produced the PWM. It was intended to reduce noise when playing back a film soundtrack. The proposed system had a threshold between "white" and "black" parts of soundtrack.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One early application of PWM was in the <a href="/wiki/Sinclair_Radionics" title="Sinclair Radionics">Sinclair</a> X10, a 10 W audio amplifier available in kit form in the 1960s. At around the same time, PWM started to be used in AC motor control.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Of note, for about a century, some variable-speed electric motors have had decent efficiency, but they were somewhat more complex than constant-speed motors, and sometimes required bulky external electrical apparatus, such as a bank of variable power resistors or rotating converters such as the <a href="/wiki/Ward_Leonard_control" title="Ward Leonard control">Ward Leonard drive</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Principle">Principle</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Principle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Periodic_pulse_wave">Periodic pulse wave</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Periodic pulse wave"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Duty_cycle_general.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Duty_cycle_general.svg/350px-Duty_cycle_general.svg.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Duty_cycle_general.svg/525px-Duty_cycle_general.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Duty_cycle_general.svg/700px-Duty_cycle_general.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="250" /></a><figcaption>Fig. 1: a periodic <a href="/wiki/Pulse_wave" title="Pulse wave">pulse wave</a>, showing <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle y_{\text{min}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msub> <mi>y</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>min</mtext> </mrow> </msub> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle y_{\text{min}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/fbd2a1d9572f917308f19cf93a8457d620dc1e21" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:4.112ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle y_{\text{min}}}"></span>, <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle y_{\text{max}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msub> <mi>y</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>max</mtext> </mrow> </msub> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle y_{\text{max}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f990a65e495ff47ae797bc7fb8516068b932cb2c" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:4.43ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle y_{\text{max}}}"></span> and constant duty cycle D.</figcaption></figure> <p>If we consider a periodic <a href="/wiki/Pulse_wave" title="Pulse wave">pulse wave</a> <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle f(t)}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>f</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle f(t)}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/5bf044fe2fbfc4bd8d6d7230f4108430263f9fd6" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:3.927ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle f(t)}"></span> with period <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle T}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>T</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle T}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/ec7200acd984a1d3a3d7dc455e262fbe54f7f6e0" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.636ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle T}"></span>, low value <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle y_{\text{min}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msub> <mi>y</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>min</mtext> </mrow> </msub> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle y_{\text{min}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/fbd2a1d9572f917308f19cf93a8457d620dc1e21" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:4.112ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle y_{\text{min}}}"></span>, a high value <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle y_{\text{max}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msub> <mi>y</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>max</mtext> </mrow> </msub> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle y_{\text{max}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f990a65e495ff47ae797bc7fb8516068b932cb2c" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:4.43ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle y_{\text{max}}}"></span> and a constant duty cycle D (Figure 1), the average value of the waveform is given by: </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\bar {y}}={\frac {1}{T}}\int _{0}^{T}f(t)\,dt}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mover> <mi>y</mi> <mo stretchy="false">¯</mo> </mover> </mrow> </mrow> <mo>=</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mn>1</mn> <mi>T</mi> </mfrac> </mrow> <msubsup> <mo>∫</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>0</mn> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>T</mi> </mrow> </msubsup> <mi>f</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> <mspace width="thinmathspace" /> <mi>d</mi> <mi>t</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\bar {y}}={\frac {1}{T}}\int _{0}^{T}f(t)\,dt}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/1aa8d581326bc327485d203d6aa7997947df7607" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -2.338ex; width:17.871ex; height:6.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\bar {y}}={\frac {1}{T}}\int _{0}^{T}f(t)\,dt}"></span></dd></dl> <p>As <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle f(t)}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>f</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle f(t)}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/5bf044fe2fbfc4bd8d6d7230f4108430263f9fd6" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:3.927ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle f(t)}"></span> is a pulse wave, its value is <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle y_{\text{max}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msub> <mi>y</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>max</mtext> </mrow> </msub> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle y_{\text{max}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f990a65e495ff47ae797bc7fb8516068b932cb2c" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:4.43ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle y_{\text{max}}}"></span> for <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle 0<t<D\cdot T}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mn>0</mn> <mo><</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mo><</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mo>⋅</mo> <mi>T</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle 0<t<D\cdot T}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f1937ebbac57c6fbcf91d69e129305a669fa55e5" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:13.439ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle 0<t<D\cdot T}"></span> and <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle y_{\text{min}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msub> <mi>y</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>min</mtext> </mrow> </msub> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle y_{\text{min}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/fbd2a1d9572f917308f19cf93a8457d620dc1e21" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:4.112ex; height:2.009ex;" alt="{\displaystyle y_{\text{min}}}"></span> for <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle D\cdot T<t<T}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>D</mi> <mo>⋅</mo> <mi>T</mi> <mo><</mo> <mi>t</mi> <mo><</mo> <mi>T</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle D\cdot T<t<T}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/fe21a173fd77e7c0fedbc88d5b45f92aefa9955b" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:13.912ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle D\cdot T<t<T}"></span>. The above expression then becomes: </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\bar {y}}&={\frac {1}{T}}\left(\int _{0}^{DT}y_{\text{max}}\,dt+\int _{DT}^{T}y_{\text{min}}\,dt\right)\\&={\frac {1}{T}}\left(D\cdot T\cdot y_{\text{max}}+T\left(1-D\right)y_{\text{min}}\right)\\&=D\cdot y_{\text{max}}+\left(1-D\right)y_{\text{min}}\end{aligned}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtable columnalign="right left right left right left right left right left right left" rowspacing="3pt" columnspacing="0em 2em 0em 2em 0em 2em 0em 2em 0em 2em 0em" displaystyle="true"> <mtr> <mtd> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mover> <mi>y</mi> <mo stretchy="false">¯</mo> </mover> </mrow> </mrow> </mtd> <mtd> <mi></mi> <mo>=</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mn>1</mn> <mi>T</mi> </mfrac> </mrow> <mrow> <mo>(</mo> <mrow> <msubsup> <mo>∫</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>0</mn> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>D</mi> <mi>T</mi> </mrow> </msubsup> <msub> <mi>y</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>max</mtext> </mrow> </msub> <mspace width="thinmathspace" /> <mi>d</mi> <mi>t</mi> <mo>+</mo> <msubsup> <mo>∫</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>D</mi> <mi>T</mi> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>T</mi> </mrow> </msubsup> <msub> <mi>y</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>min</mtext> </mrow> </msub> <mspace width="thinmathspace" /> <mi>d</mi> <mi>t</mi> </mrow> <mo>)</mo> </mrow> </mtd> </mtr> <mtr> <mtd /> <mtd> <mi></mi> <mo>=</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mn>1</mn> <mi>T</mi> </mfrac> </mrow> <mrow> <mo>(</mo> <mrow> <mi>D</mi> <mo>⋅</mo> <mi>T</mi> <mo>⋅</mo> <msub> <mi>y</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>max</mtext> </mrow> </msub> <mo>+</mo> <mi>T</mi> <mrow> <mo>(</mo> <mrow> <mn>1</mn> <mo>−</mo> <mi>D</mi> </mrow> <mo>)</mo> </mrow> <msub> <mi>y</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>min</mtext> </mrow> </msub> </mrow> <mo>)</mo> </mrow> </mtd> </mtr> <mtr> <mtd /> <mtd> <mi></mi> <mo>=</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mo>⋅</mo> <msub> <mi>y</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>max</mtext> </mrow> </msub> <mo>+</mo> <mrow> <mo>(</mo> <mrow> <mn>1</mn> <mo>−</mo> <mi>D</mi> </mrow> <mo>)</mo> </mrow> <msub> <mi>y</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>min</mtext> </mrow> </msub> </mtd> </mtr> </mtable> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\bar {y}}&={\frac {1}{T}}\left(\int _{0}^{DT}y_{\text{max}}\,dt+\int _{DT}^{T}y_{\text{min}}\,dt\right)\\&={\frac {1}{T}}\left(D\cdot T\cdot y_{\text{max}}+T\left(1-D\right)y_{\text{min}}\right)\\&=D\cdot y_{\text{max}}+\left(1-D\right)y_{\text{min}}\end{aligned}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/4674cefe2722c18aebd8db2ce69e3cac9dedd1e9" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -6.838ex; width:38.269ex; height:14.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\bar {y}}&={\frac {1}{T}}\left(\int _{0}^{DT}y_{\text{max}}\,dt+\int _{DT}^{T}y_{\text{min}}\,dt\right)\\&={\frac {1}{T}}\left(D\cdot T\cdot y_{\text{max}}+T\left(1-D\right)y_{\text{min}}\right)\\&=D\cdot y_{\text{max}}+\left(1-D\right)y_{\text{min}}\end{aligned}}}"></span></dd></dl> <p>This latter expression can be fairly simplified in many cases where <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle y_{\text{min}}=0}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msub> <mi>y</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>min</mtext> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <mn>0</mn> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle y_{\text{min}}=0}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/6b2bcfdd5420aabc2fa94b6a2cffc5676be0f6e5" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:8.373ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle y_{\text{min}}=0}"></span> as <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\bar {y}}=D\cdot y_{\text{max}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mover> <mi>y</mi> <mo stretchy="false">¯</mo> </mover> </mrow> </mrow> <mo>=</mo> <mi>D</mi> <mo>⋅</mo> <msub> <mi>y</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>max</mtext> </mrow> </msub> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\bar {y}}=D\cdot y_{\text{max}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/6342fc950d4168b10189e1fcb779be6b32987649" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:12.434ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\bar {y}}=D\cdot y_{\text{max}}}"></span>. From this, the average value of the signal (<span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\bar {y}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mover> <mi>y</mi> <mo stretchy="false">¯</mo> </mover> </mrow> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\bar {y}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/6b298744237368f34e61ff7dc90b34016a7037af" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:1.302ex; height:2.343ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\bar {y}}}"></span>) is directly dependent on the duty cycle D. </p><p>However, by varying (i.e. modulating) the duty cycle (and possibly also the period), the following more advanced pulse-width modulated waves allow variation of the <a href="/wiki/Average" title="Average">average</a> value of the waveform. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Intersective_method_PWM">Intersective method PWM</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Intersective method PWM"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Pwm.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Pwm.svg/400px-Pwm.svg.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="333" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Pwm.svg/600px-Pwm.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Pwm.svg/800px-Pwm.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="500" /></a></span> </p><p>The intersective method is a simple way to generate a PWM output signal (magenta in above figure) with fixed period and varying duty cycle is by using a <a href="/wiki/Comparator" title="Comparator">comparator</a> to switch the PWM output state when the input waveform (red) intersects with a <a href="/wiki/Sawtooth_wave" title="Sawtooth wave">sawtooth</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Triangle_wave" title="Triangle wave">triangle</a> waveform (blue). </p><p>Depending on the type of sawtooth or triangle waveform (green in below figure), intersective PWM signals (blue in the below figure) can be aligned in three manners: </p><p><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Three_PWM_types.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Three_PWM_types.svg/400px-Three_PWM_types.svg.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="333" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Three_PWM_types.svg/600px-Three_PWM_types.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Three_PWM_types.svg/800px-Three_PWM_types.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="500" /></a></span> </p> <ul><li>Leading <a href="/wiki/Signal_edge" title="Signal edge">edge</a> modulation (top plot) uses a reverse sawtooth wave to generate the PWM. The PWM's leading edge is held at the leading edge of the window and the trailing edge is modulated.</li> <li>Trailing edge modulation (middle plot) uses a normal sawtooth wave to generate the PWM. The PWM's trailing edge is fixed and the leading edge is modulated.</li> <li>Centered pulses (bottom) uses a triangle waveform to generate the PWM. The pulse center is fixed in the center of the time window and both edges of the pulse are moved to compress or expand the width.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Time_proportioning">Time proportioning</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Time proportioning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many digital circuits can generate PWM signals (e.g., many <a href="/wiki/Microcontrollers" class="mw-redirect" title="Microcontrollers">microcontrollers</a> have PWM outputs). They normally use a <a href="/wiki/Counter_(digital)" title="Counter (digital)">counter</a> that increments periodically (it is connected directly or indirectly to the <a href="/wiki/Clock_signal" title="Clock signal">clock</a> of the circuit) and is reset at the end of every period of the PWM. When the counter value is more than the reference value, the PWM output changes state from high to low (or low to high).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This technique is referred to as <b>time proportioning,</b> particularly as <b>time-proportioning control</b><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – which <i>proportion</i> of a fixed cycle time is spent in the high state. </p><p>The incremented and periodically reset counter is the discrete version of the intersecting method's sawtooth. The analog comparator of the intersecting method becomes a simple integer comparison between the current counter value and the digital (possibly digitized) reference value. The duty cycle can only be varied in discrete steps, as a function of the counter resolution. However, a high-resolution counter can provide quite satisfactory performance. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Spectrum">Spectrum</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Spectrum"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The resulting <a href="/wiki/Spectrum" title="Spectrum">spectra</a> (of the three alignments) are similar. Each contains a <a href="/wiki/Direct_current" title="Direct current">dc</a> component, a base sideband containing the modulating signal, and phase modulated <a href="/wiki/Carrier_signal" class="mw-redirect" title="Carrier signal">carriers</a> at each <a href="/wiki/Harmonic" title="Harmonic">harmonic</a> of the frequency of the pulse. The amplitudes of the harmonic groups are restricted by a <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \sin x/x}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>sin</mi> <mo>⁡</mo> <mi>x</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mo>/</mo> </mrow> <mi>x</mi> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \sin x/x}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/186c83abf80a10cb248374b107a9205f81c0d687" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.838ex; width:7.065ex; height:2.843ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \sin x/x}"></span> envelope (<a href="/wiki/Sinc_function" title="Sinc function">sinc function</a>) and extend to infinity. The infinite bandwidth is caused by the nonlinear operation of the pulse-width modulator. In consequence, a digital PWM suffers from <a href="/wiki/Aliasing" title="Aliasing">aliasing</a> distortion that significantly reduce its applicability for modern <a href="/wiki/Communication_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Communication system">communication systems</a>. By limiting the bandwidth of the PWM kernel, aliasing effects can be avoided.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the contrary, <a href="/wiki/Delta_modulation" title="Delta modulation">delta modulation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Delta-sigma_modulation" title="Delta-sigma modulation">delta-sigma modulation</a> are random processes<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="What exactly is meant by "random" here? (February 2024)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> that produces a continuous spectrum without distinct harmonics. While intersective PWM uses a fixed period but a varying duty cycle, the period of delta and delta-sigma modulated PWMs varies in addition to their duty cycle. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Delta_modulation">Delta modulation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Delta modulation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Delta_modulation" title="Delta modulation">Delta modulation</a></div><p><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Delta_PWM.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Delta_PWM.svg/400px-Delta_PWM.svg.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Delta_PWM.svg/600px-Delta_PWM.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Delta_PWM.svg/800px-Delta_PWM.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="300" /></a></span> </p><p>Delta modulation produces a PWM signal (magenta in above figure) which changes state whenever its integral (blue) hits the limits (green) surrounding the input (red). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Asynchronous_delta-sigma_PWM">Asynchronous delta-sigma PWM</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Asynchronous delta-sigma PWM"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Delta-sigma_modulation#Asynchronous_delta-sigma_modulation" title="Delta-sigma modulation">Delta-sigma modulation § Asynchronous delta-sigma modulation</a></div> <p><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Sigma-delta_PWM.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Sigma-delta_PWM.svg/400px-Sigma-delta_PWM.svg.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="333" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Sigma-delta_PWM.svg/600px-Sigma-delta_PWM.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Sigma-delta_PWM.svg/800px-Sigma-delta_PWM.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="500" /></a></span> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Asynchronous_circuit" title="Asynchronous circuit">Asynchronous</a> (i.e. unclocked) delta-sigma modulation produces a PWM output (blue in bottom plot) which is subtracted from the input signal (green in top plot) to form an error signal (blue in top plot). This error is integrated (magenta in middle plot). When the integral of the error exceeds the limits (the upper and lower grey lines in middle plot), the PWM output changes state. By integrating the difference of the error with the input signal, delta-sigma modulation <a href="/wiki/Noise_shaping" title="Noise shaping">shapes noise</a> of the resulting spectrum to be more in higher frequencies above the input signal's band. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Space_vector_modulation">Space vector modulation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Space vector modulation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Space_vector_modulation" title="Space vector modulation">Space vector modulation</a></div> <p>Space vector modulation is a PWM control algorithm for multi-phase AC generation, in which the reference signal is sampled regularly; after each sample, non-zero active switching vectors adjacent to the reference vector and one or more of the zero switching vectors are selected for the appropriate fraction of the sampling period in order to synthesize the reference signal as the average of the used vectors. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Direct_torque_control_(DTC)"><span id="Direct_torque_control_.28DTC.29"></span>Direct torque control (DTC)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Direct torque control (DTC)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Direct_torque_control" title="Direct torque control">Direct torque control</a></div> <p>Direct torque control is a method used to control AC motors. It is closely related with the delta modulation (see above). Motor torque and magnetic flux are estimated and these are controlled to stay within their hysteresis bands by turning on a new combination of the device's semiconductor switches each time either signal tries to deviate out of its band. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="PWM_sampling_theorem">PWM sampling theorem</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: PWM sampling theorem"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The process of PWM conversion is non-linear and it is generally supposed that low pass filter signal recovery is imperfect for PWM. The PWM sampling theorem<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> shows that PWM conversion can be perfect: </p> <blockquote><p>Any <a href="/wiki/Bandlimited" class="mw-redirect" title="Bandlimited">bandlimited</a> <a href="/wiki/Baseband" title="Baseband">baseband</a> signal whose amplitude is within ±0.637 can be represented by a PWM waveform of unit amplitude (±1). The number of pulses in the waveform is equal to the number of <a href="/wiki/Nyquist_rate" title="Nyquist rate">Nyquist samples</a> and the peak constraint is independent of whether the waveform is two-level or three-level.</p></blockquote> <p>For comparison, the <a href="/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampling_theorem" title="Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem">Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem</a> can be summarized as: </p> <blockquote><p>If you have a signal that is bandlimited to a bandwidth of f<sub>0</sub> then you can collect all the information there is in that signal by sampling it at discrete times, as long as your sample rate is greater than 2f<sub>0</sub>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Applications">Applications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Applications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Servos">Servos</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Servos"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>PWM is used to control servomechanisms; see <a href="/wiki/Servo_control" title="Servo control">servo control</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Telecommunications">Telecommunications</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Telecommunications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Telecommunications" title="Telecommunications">telecommunications</a>, PWM is a form of signal <a href="/wiki/Modulation#Pulse_modulation_methods" title="Modulation">modulation</a> where the widths of the pulses correspond to specific data values encoded at one end and decoded at the other. </p><p>Pulses of various lengths (the information itself) will be sent at regular intervals (the carrier frequency of the modulation). </p> <pre> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clock | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __| |____| |____| |____| |____| |____| |____| |____| |____ _ __ ____ ____ _ PWM signal | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | _________| |____| |___| |________| |_| |___________ Data 0 1 2 4 0 4 1 0 </pre> <p>The inclusion of a <a href="/wiki/Clock_signal" title="Clock signal">clock signal</a> is not necessary, as the leading edge of the data signal can be used as the clock if a small offset is added to each data value in order to avoid a data value with a zero length pulse. </p> <pre> _ __ ___ _____ _ _____ __ _ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PWM signal | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __| |____| |___| |__| |_| |____| |_| |___| |_____ Data 0 1 2 4 0 4 1 0 </pre> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Power_delivery">Power delivery</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Power delivery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>PWM can be used to control the amount of power delivered to a load without incurring the losses that would result from linear power delivery by resistive means. Drawbacks to this technique are that the power drawn by the load is not constant but rather discontinuous (see <a href="/wiki/Buck_converter" title="Buck converter">Buck converter</a>), and energy delivered to the load is not continuous either. However, the load may be inductive, and with a sufficiently high frequency and when necessary using additional passive <a href="/wiki/Electronic_filter" title="Electronic filter">electronic filters</a>, the pulse train can be smoothed and average analog waveform recovered. Power flow into the load can be continuous. Power flow from the supply is not constant and will require energy storage on the supply side in most cases. (In the case of an electrical circuit, a capacitor to absorb energy stored in (often parasitic) supply side inductance.) </p><p>High <a href="/wiki/Frequency" title="Frequency">frequency</a> PWM power control systems are easily realisable with semiconductor switches. As explained above, almost no power is dissipated by the switch in either on or off state. However, during the transitions between on and off states, both voltage and current are nonzero and thus power is dissipated in the switches. By quickly changing the state between fully on and fully off (typically less than 100 nanoseconds), the power dissipation in the switches can be quite low compared to the power being delivered to the load. </p><p>Modern semiconductor switches such as <a href="/wiki/MOSFET" title="MOSFET">MOSFETs</a> or <a href="/wiki/Insulated-gate_bipolar_transistor" title="Insulated-gate bipolar transistor">insulated-gate bipolar transistors</a> (IGBTs) are well suited components for high-efficiency controllers. Frequency converters used to control AC motors may have efficiencies exceeding 98%. Switching power supplies have lower efficiency due to low output voltage levels (often even less than 2 V for microprocessors are needed) but still more than 70–80% efficiency can be achieved. </p><p>Variable-speed <a href="/wiki/Computer_fan_control" title="Computer fan control">computer fan controllers</a> usually use PWM, as it is far more efficient when compared to a <a href="/wiki/Potentiometer" title="Potentiometer">potentiometer</a> or rheostat. (Neither of the latter is practical to operate electronically; they would require a small drive motor.) </p><p>Light dimmers for home use employ a specific type of PWM control. Home-use light dimmers typically include electronic circuitry that suppresses current flow during defined portions of each cycle of the AC line voltage. Adjusting the brightness of light emitted by a light source is then merely a matter of setting at what voltage (or phase) in the AC half-cycle the dimmer begins to provide electric current to the light source (e.g. by using an electronic switch such as a <a href="/wiki/TRIAC" title="TRIAC">triac</a>). In this case the PWM duty cycle is the ratio of the conduction time to the duration of the half AC cycle defined by the frequency of the AC line voltage (50 Hz or 60 Hz depending on the country). </p><p>These rather simple types of dimmers can be effectively used with inert (or relatively slow reacting) light sources such as incandescent lamps, for example, for which the additional modulation in supplied electrical energy which is caused by the dimmer causes only negligible additional fluctuations in the emitted light. Some other types of light sources such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), however, turn on and off extremely rapidly and would perceivably flicker if supplied with low-frequency drive voltages. Perceivable flicker effects from such rapid response light sources can be reduced by increasing the PWM frequency. If the light fluctuations are sufficiently rapid (faster than the <a href="/wiki/Flicker_fusion_threshold" title="Flicker fusion threshold">flicker fusion threshold</a>), the human visual system can no longer resolve them and the eye perceives the time average intensity without flicker. </p><p>In electric cookers, continuously variable power is applied to the heating elements such as the hob or the grill using a device known as a <a href="/wiki/Simmerstat" class="mw-redirect" title="Simmerstat">simmerstat</a>. This consists of a thermal oscillator running at approximately two cycles per minute and the mechanism varies the duty cycle according to the knob setting. The thermal time constant of the heating elements is several minutes so that the temperature fluctuations are too small to matter in practice. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Voltage_regulation">Voltage regulation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Voltage regulation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Switched-mode_power_supply" title="Switched-mode power supply">Switched-mode power supply</a></div> <p>PWM is also used in efficient <a href="/wiki/Voltage_regulator" title="Voltage regulator">voltage regulators</a>. By switching the voltage to the load with the appropriate duty cycle, the output will approximate a voltage at the desired level. The switching noise is usually filtered with an <a href="/wiki/Inductor" title="Inductor">inductor</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Capacitor" title="Capacitor">capacitor</a>. </p><p>One method measures the output voltage. When it is lower than the desired voltage, it turns on the switch. When the output voltage is above the desired voltage, it turns off the switch. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Audio_effects_and_amplification">Audio effects and amplification</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Audio effects and amplification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Varying the duty cycle of a pulse waveform in a synthesis instrument creates useful timbral variations. Some synthesizers have a duty-cycle trimmer for their square-wave outputs, and that trimmer can be set by ear; the 50% point (true square wave) is distinctive because even-numbered harmonics essentially disappear at 50%. Pulse waves, usually 50%, 25%, and 12.5%, make up the <a href="/wiki/Video_game_music" title="Video game music">soundtracks of classic video games</a>. The term PWM as used in sound (music) synthesis refers to the ratio between the high and low level being secondarily modulated with a <a href="/wiki/Low-frequency_oscillator" class="mw-redirect" title="Low-frequency oscillator">low-frequency oscillator</a>. This gives a sound effect similar to <a href="/wiki/Chorus_(audio_effect)" title="Chorus (audio effect)">chorus</a> or slightly detuned oscillators played together. (In fact, PWM is equivalent to the sum of two <a href="/wiki/Sawtooth_wave" title="Sawtooth wave">sawtooth waves</a> with one of them inverted.)<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Class-D_amplifier" title="Class-D amplifier">Class-D amplifiers</a> produce a PWM equivalent of a lower frequency input signal that can be sent to a <a href="/wiki/Loudspeaker" title="Loudspeaker">loudspeaker</a> via a suitable filter network to block the carrier and recover the original lower frequency signal. Since they switch power directly from the high supply rail and low supply rail, these amplifiers have efficiency above 90% and can be relatively compact and light, even for large power outputs. For a few decades, industrial and military PWM amplifiers have been in common use, often for driving <a href="/wiki/Servomotor" title="Servomotor">servomotors</a>. Field-gradient coils in <a href="/wiki/MRI" class="mw-redirect" title="MRI">MRI</a> machines are driven by relatively high-power PWM amplifiers. </p><p>Historically, a crude form of PWM has been used to play back <a href="/wiki/PCM" class="mw-redirect" title="PCM">PCM</a> digital sound on the <a href="/wiki/PC_speaker" title="PC speaker">PC speaker</a>, which is driven by only two voltage levels, typically 0 V and 5 V. By carefully timing the duration of the pulses, and by relying on the speaker's physical filtering properties (limited frequency response, self-inductance, etc.) it was possible to obtain an approximate playback of mono PCM samples, although at a very low quality, and with greatly varying results between implementations. The <a href="/wiki/Sega_32X" class="mw-redirect" title="Sega 32X">Sega 32X</a> uses PWM to play sample-based sound in its games. </p><p>In more recent times, the <a href="/wiki/Direct_Stream_Digital" title="Direct Stream Digital">Direct Stream Digital</a> sound encoding method was introduced, which uses a generalized form of pulse-width modulation called <a href="/wiki/Pulse-density_modulation" title="Pulse-density modulation">pulse-density modulation</a>, at a high enough sampling rate (typically in the order of MHz) to cover the whole <a href="/wiki/Acoustics" title="Acoustics">acoustic</a> frequencies range with sufficient fidelity. This method is used in the <a href="/wiki/Super_Audio_CD" title="Super Audio CD">SACD</a> format, and reproduction of the encoded audio signal is essentially similar to the method used in class-D amplifiers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Electrical">Electrical</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Electrical"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>SPWM (sine–triangle pulse-width modulation) signals are used in micro-inverter design (used in solar and wind power applications). These switching signals are fed to the <a href="/wiki/FET" class="mw-redirect" title="FET">FETs</a> that are used in the device. The device's efficiency depends on the harmonic content of the PWM signal. There is much research on eliminating unwanted harmonics and improving the fundamental strength, some of which involves using a modified carrier signal instead of a classic sawtooth signal<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in order to decrease power losses and improve efficiency. Another common application is in robotics where PWM signals are used to control the speed of the robot by controlling the motors. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Soft-blinking_LED_indicator">Soft-blinking LED indicator</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Soft-blinking LED indicator"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>PWM techniques would typically be used to make some indicator (like an <a href="/wiki/LED" class="mw-redirect" title="LED">LED</a>) <i>soft blink</i>. The light will slowly go from dark to full intensity, and slowly dimmed to dark again. Then it repeats. The period would be several soft blinks per second up to several seconds for one blink. An indicator of this type would not disturb as much as a <i>hard-blinking</i> on/off indicator. The indicator lamp on the <a href="/wiki/IBook" title="IBook">Apple iBook G4, PowerBook 6,7 (2005)</a> was of this type. This kind of indicator is also called <i>pulsing glow</i>, as opposed to calling it <i>flashing</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pulse-width_modulation&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Analog_signal_to_discrete_time_interval_converter" title="Analog signal to discrete time interval converter">Analog signal to discrete time interval converter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Class-D_amplifier" title="Class-D amplifier">Class-D amplifier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Computer_fan_control" title="Computer fan control">Computer fan control</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continuously_variable_slope_delta_modulation" title="Continuously variable slope delta modulation">Continuously variable slope delta modulation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delta-sigma_modulation" title="Delta-sigma modulation">Delta-sigma modulation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H-bridge" title="H-bridge">H-bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulse-amplitude_modulation" title="Pulse-amplitude modulation">Pulse-amplitude modulation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulse-code_modulation" title="Pulse-code modulation">Pulse-code modulation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulse-density_modulation" title="Pulse-density modulation">Pulse-density modulation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulse-frequency_modulation" title="Pulse-frequency modulation">Pulse-frequency modulation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulse-position_modulation" title="Pulse-position modulation">Pulse-position modulation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radio_control" title="Radio control">Radio control</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Random_pulse-width_modulation" title="Random pulse-width modulation">Random pulse-width modulation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Servo_control" title="Servo control">RC servo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sliding_mode_control" title="Sliding mode control">Sliding mode control</a> - 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