You could use two PWM channels on a PIC and just add an inverter to the
output of one of them.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Klingensmith" <martin@NNYTECH.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [EE:] or PIC question about SMPS


> Hi Joe,
> I need 2 identical PWM signals 180 degrees out of phase:
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> If the pulse width were varied, it would not just be an inverse:
> ______----______----_
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> Thanks for replying though
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> Joe Mann wrote:
>
> > Martin,
> >
> > I had a similar problem (needing a 50% duty cycle signal) and received
this
> > and similar approaches from Mike Hawkshaw and other PICList members.
> >
> > On 5/24/04 Mike Hawkshaw wrote:
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > An interesting app note. If you use very fast logic chips (I'm not sure
that
> > it is quite do able with those families at 15MHz) i.e. 74ls or 74vls are
> > faster I think, then you might just get away with just using a single
> > inverter to give an invert of your clock signal. The last thing you want
in
> > circuits like these is significant clock signal overlap, which might
come
> > from the delay in a single inverter.
> >
> > If the simple inverter is not good enough, try a pair of "exclusive or"
> > gates, feed the clock signal into one input of each, and then tie the
other
> > inputs to ground on one gate and +5V on the other gate. This will give a
> > complimentary output which should be well matched for overlap. It is
also
> > possible to do this with an or and an and gate in the same way, but with
> > identical gates on the same chip, you might get better results.
> > --------------------------------------------------
> >
> > The single inverter or the exclusive ORs might be answers for your
problem.
> >
> > Joe, K9HDE
> >
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