Can’t generate PWM output on RP2040 other than square waves

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I was playing with PWM on the RP2040. I can do square waves, but pretty much everything else does not work. I have recorded the PWM output with a sound card at 44100 Hz in order to verify it visually. (PIN 0 and GND are directly connected to Line In of the sound card.)

The square wave output looks pretty good (the highlighted selection is exactly 100 samples): 

The sawtooth wave does not come out as such at all: 

What am I doing wrong?

The code:

#define SYS_CLOCK_KHZ 133000
#define AUDIO_PIN 0

void on_pwm_wrap() {
  const static bool sawtooth = true;
  const static int period = 100;
  static uint32_t i = 0;
  pwm_clear_irq(pwm_gpio_to_slice_num(AUDIO_PIN));
  i++;
  uint16_t level = sawtooth
    ? (i % period) * (65535/(period-1))       // sawtooth
    : (i % period) >= (period/2) ? 65535 : 0; // square
  pwm_set_gpio_level(AUDIO_PIN, level);
}

int main() {
  set_sys_clock_khz(SYS_CLOCK_KHZ, true);
  gpio_set_function(AUDIO_PIN, GPIO_FUNC_PWM);
  uint slice_num = pwm_gpio_to_slice_num(AUDIO_PIN);

  pwm_clear_irq(slice_num);
  pwm_set_irq_enabled(slice_num, true);
  irq_set_exclusive_handler(PWM_IRQ_WRAP, on_pwm_wrap);
  irq_set_enabled(PWM_IRQ_WRAP, true);

  pwm_config config = pwm_get_default_config();
  // 3,015 * 1.00029 * 44,100 = 133,000,000
  pwm_config_set_clkdiv(&config, 1.00029f);
  pwm_config_set_wrap(&config, 3015);
  pwm_init(slice_num, &config, true);

  while (1)
    tight_loop_contents();
}

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edited 21 hours ago

asked 22 hours ago

Evgeniy Berezovsky

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• Which saw tooth sig gen you are using, this one: Arbitrary Wave Generator With the Raspberry Pi Pico? instructables.com/… – tlfong01 21 hours ago  
• Why such a complicated way of setting level? What are you trying to do? It seems a long winded way of deciding if level should be 0 or 1. – joan 19 hours ago
• @tlfong01 The hardware and software I’m using is described in my question. I’m not using anything else. The board the RP2040 sits on – although that should not matter, as I’m using the pico-sdk and RP2040 features only – is a Seeeduino XIAO. – Evgeniy Berezovsky 4 hours ago
• @joan I’m using these formulas for square and sawtooth waves so that I can change the frequency by simply changing the period variable. – Evgeniy Berezovsky 4 hours ago
• @Evgeniy Berezovsky: I guess you might have misunderstood the things that Pico GPIO pins can do. Either Rpi or Pico GPIO pins are digital pins which can do PWM which can dim LEDs, effectively like an analog pin, but they are still digital pins. In other words, any GPIO pins can switch between 0V and 3V3 at the frequency you like, but you cannot set them at an analogue value, eg say 0.5V or 1.8V. – tlfong01 2 mins ago   Edit  

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