Hello,

We are making a demo on an Intrinsyc development  board that has a StrongARM SA1110. 
OS is HardHat Linux. We want to use a GPIO pin as a PWM. Using this PWM we can make a 
backlight by switching some LEDs.

We already tried using the kernel timers of linux, but they were too slow to make a 
decent PWMfrequency (100Hz max gave a flickering backlight). We experimented with 
threads yesterday, but they are apparently also dependent of the kernel timers.
Using microdelay is also not an option since it occupies the processor, so nothing 
else can be done during the waiting time.

What we are looking for is a way to switch a GPIO pin as fast as possible in the 
background of an application. We want to implement all this in a module.

any ideas or suggestions?

Nicolas and Geert
SW engineers

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Geert Jacobs
Philips TASS Belgium
Tweestationsstraat 80
1070 Brussel
Tel:  +32 2 525 70 74
Fax: +32 2 525 70 69




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