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Control an LM317T with a

PWM signal
Aruna Rubasinghe -February 03, 2011

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The
LM317T
from
National
Semicon
ductor is
a
popular
adjustabl
e-
voltage
regulator
that provides output voltages of 1.25 to 37V with maximum 1.5A current.
You can adjust the output voltage with a potentiometer. The circuit in
Figure 1 replaces the potentiometer with an analog voltage that you can
control from a PWM (pulse-width-modulation) signal. You control this
signal with a microcontroller or any other digital circuit. You can use the
same microcontroller to dynamically monitor the output and adjust the
LM317T.

Using an RC lowpass filter and an op amp, you can convert the PWM
signal to a dc level that can adjust the LM317’s voltage output. Varying
the pulse width of the input signal lets you generate an analog voltage
of 0 to 5V at the output of the lowpass filter. The op amp multiplies the
voltage to achieve the desired voltage range.

For scenarios in which you must multiply the Read More

input voltage by two, the LM317’s adjustment pin Design Ideas
receives 0 to 10V. Its output-voltage range is 1.25
to 11.25V. The equation VOUT=VADJ+1.25V governs the LM317’s output
voltage. You can change the op amp’s gain by choosing proper values for
R4 and R2. You must be able to remove offset voltages from the op amp.
Use an op amp, such as a National Semiconductor LM741, with null
adjustment. The selection of values for the capacitor and resistor for the
RC lowpass filter depends on the PWM signal’s frequency. This circuit
uses values for a 1-kHz PWM signal.

You can improve the circuit by replacing the RC lowpass filter with an
active filter and then feeding a feedback signal from the circuit’s output
into the microcontroller for dynamic adjustments.

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