How do you get 2 PWM pins to inversely bitbang at 25 KHz on a Nano?

Question

I need 2 PWM pins to oscillate at 25 KHz but they need to oscillate inverse to each other. When one is high, the other must be low and vise-versa.

I want to do this with a Nano.

Answer 1

There are various solutions. I suggest using two PWM channels driven by a single timer. This way you do not have to worry about synchronizing two timers. You can configure the channels identically, except that one of them would be in “non-inverting” PWM mode, while the other one would be in “inverting” mode.

Here is how I would do it: use Timer 1 to drive pins 9 (PB1, OC1A) and 10 (PB2, OC1B) in fast PWM.

void setup() {
    // Configure Timer 1 for complementary PWM @ 25 kHz.
    DDRB  |= _BV(PB1);    // set pin 9 = PB1 = OC1A as output
    DDRB  |= _BV(PB2);    // set pin 10 = PB2 = OC1B as output
    TCCR1A = 0;           // undo the Arduino timer initialization
    TCCR1B = 0;           // ditto
    ICR1   = 640 - 1;     // period = 640 CPU cycles = 40 us
    OCR1A  = 320 - 1;     // OC1A HIGH for 320 CPU cycles = 20 us
    OCR1B  = 320 - 1;     // OC1B LOW for 320 CPU cycles = 20 us
    TCCR1A = _BV(COM1A1)  // non-inverting PWM on OC1A
           | _BV(COM1B0)  // inverting PWM on OC1B
           | _BV(COM1B1)  // ditto
           | _BV(WGM11);  // fast PWM, TOP = ICR1
    TCCR1B = _BV(WGM12)   // ditto
           | _BV(WGM13)   // ditto
           | _BV(CS10);   // clock at F_CPU
}