Sinusoidal PWM Signal Generation Using TMS320C6711 DSP for Power Control in Mobile Phones

Pulse Width Modulation is a method of controlling the amount of power to a load without having to dissipate any power in the load driver. PWM signals are widely used in telecommunications, power control systems, voltage regulation and in audio signal processing. This paper deals with the optimized power control in mobile applications. PWM power control systems became reality with the advent of modern semiconductor switches like MOSFETs and Insulated Gate bipolar transistor (IGBT). PWM signals can be easily generated using microcontrollers rather than Digital signal processors (DSP), but when the sensor data from light intensity sensors are processed in real time, then microcontrollers can no longer be used because of less accuracy and speed and this is where DSP comes into play. Programming a DSP to generate PWM signal in accordance with the sensor data is not an easy task since the interfacing codes are not as simple as for microcontrollers. Hence the simulation of the PWM signal has been done to study the efficiency of the C code. This work is a part of a project to develop DSP-FPGA based BLDC motor control.