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Stepper motor MOSFET drive

Introduction
Demonstration of the 'Stepper motor MOSFET drive' sub-circuit. This sub-circuit can produce three different step patterns for a unipolar 6 or 8 wire stepper motor.

The target is a PIC16F84 running at 4Mhz.

Operation
Drive stepper motor clock-wise 50 steps, then anti-clockwise 100 steps. Repeat for each step mode.

Application code
Below is the application code for this project. To use it, select and copy (ctr-insert) the code below and past it into a text editor and save as a 'C' file in your working directory. You may also need to change the build output path using 'Project | Options'

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////                           ASTEP1.C                            ////
////                                                               ////
////  Demonstration of 'Stepper motor MOSFET drive' sub-circuit.   ////
////  Performs stepper functions in 3 step modes.                  ////
////  More of the same sub-circuit can be added to produce a       ////
////  multi axis stepper drive.                                    ////
////                                                               ////
////  This program is an example of how your application code is   ////
////  is organised. Note the #include "astep1.c", this include     ////
////  file was generated by QuickBuilder and contains all          ////
////  driver code.                                                 ////
////                                                               ////
////  This demo is intended for a PIC16F84.                        ////
////  Compiled using CCS 'C'  visit www.quickbuilder.co.uk/qb/ccs  ////
////  for more information.                                        ////
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#include <16f84.H>

#fuses hs,nowdt,noprotect,put

#case

#define PORTA 5 
#define PORTB 6
#define TRISA 0x85 
#define TRISB 0x86


#include "step1.c"


#int_rtcc
void RTCC_ISR()
{
    STEP_1DO();
}


main() {    

    // initialise sub-circuits and rtcc interrupts
    //--------------------------------------------
    INIT_SUB_CIRCUITS();
    setup_timer_0(RTCC_INTERNAL | RTCC_DIV_2);
    enable_interrupts(INT_TIMER0);
    enable_interrupts(GLOBAL);


    // main loop
    //----------
    while(1) {    
        STEP_1SPEEDT = 50;

        // step clock wise 50 steps followed by 1 seccond pause
        STEP_1DIR = 0;
        STEP_1STEPS = 50;
        while(STEP_1STEPS);
        delay_ms(1000);

        // step anti-clock wise 100 steps followed by 0.5 seccond pause
        STEP_1DIR = -1;
        STEP_1STEPS = 100;
        while(STEP_1STEPS);
        delay_ms(3000);
    

        // demo next step mode
        if (++STEP_1MODE > 2)
            STEP_1MODE =0;    
    }
}