nordic,nrf-sw-pwm

Vendor: Nordic Semiconductor

Note

An implementation of a driver matching this compatible is available in drivers/pwm/pwm_nrf_sw.c.

Description

nRFx S/W PWM

Properties

Node specific properties

Properties not inherited from the base binding file.

Name

Type

Details

generator

phandle

Reference to TIMER or RTC instance for generating PWM output signals

This property is required.

clock-prescaler

int

Clock prescaler for RTC or TIMER used for generating PWM output signals.

RTC: needs to be set to 0, which gives 32768 Hz base clock for PWM
generation.

TIMER: 16 MHz / 2^prescaler base clock is used for PWM generation.

This property is required.

channel-gpios

phandle-array

An array of GPIOs assigned as outputs for the PWM channels. The number
of items in this array determines the number of channels that this PWM
will provide. This value is limited by the number of compare registers
in the used RTC/TIMER instance minus 1.

Example:

  sw_pwm: sw-pwm {
    compatible = "nordic,nrf-sw-pwm";
    ...
    channel-gpios = <&gpio0 20 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>,
                    <&gpio1 12 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
    ...
  };

The above will assign P0.20 as the output for channel 0 and P1.12 as
the output for channel 1. Both outputs will be initially configured as
active high.

Please note that in the flags cell (the last component of each item
of the array) only the GPIO flags that specify the active level are
taken into account (any others are ignored), and they are used only
when the initial (inactive) state of the outputs is set.
After any PWM signal generation is requested for a given channel,
the polarity of its output is determined by the flag specified
in the request, i.e. PWM_POLARITY_INVERTED or PWM_POLARITY_NORMAL.

This property is required.

#pwm-cells

int

Number of items to expect in a pwm specifier

This property is required.

Constant value: 3

Deprecated node specific properties

Deprecated properties not inherited from the base binding file.

(None)

Base properties

Properties inherited from the base binding file, which defines common properties that may be set on many nodes. Not all of these may apply to the “nordic,nrf-sw-pwm” compatible.

Name

Type

Details

status

string

Indicates the operational status of the hardware or other
resource that the node represents. In particular:

  - "okay" means the resource is operational and, for example,
    can be used by device drivers
  - "disabled" means the resource is not operational and the system
    should treat it as if it is not present

For details, see "2.3.4 status" in Devicetree Specification v0.4.

Legal values: 'ok', 'okay', 'disabled', 'reserved', 'fail', 'fail-sss'

See Important properties for more information.

compatible

string-array

This property is a list of strings that essentially define what
type of hardware or other resource this devicetree node
represents. Each device driver checks for specific compatible
property values to find the devicetree nodes that represent
resources that the driver should manage.

The recommended format is "vendor,device", The "vendor" part is
an abbreviated name of the vendor. The "device" is usually from
the datasheet.

The compatible property can have multiple values, ordered from
most- to least-specific. Having additional values is useful when the
device is a specific instance of a more general family, to allow the
system to match the most specific driver available.

For details, see "2.3.1 compatible" in Devicetree Specification v0.4.

This property is required.

See Important properties for more information.

reg

array

Information used to address the device. The value is specific to
the device (i.e. is different depending on the compatible
property).

The "reg" property is typically a sequence of (address, length) pairs.
Each pair is called a "register block". Values are
conventionally written in hex.

For details, see "2.3.6 reg" in Devicetree Specification v0.4.

See Important properties for more information.

reg-names

string-array

Optional names given to each register block in the "reg" property.
For example:

  / {
       soc {
           #address-cells = <1>;
           #size-cells = <1>;

           uart@1000 {
               reg = <0x1000 0x2000>, <0x3000 0x4000>;
               reg-names = "foo", "bar";
           };
       };
  };

The uart@1000 node has two register blocks:

  - one with base address 0x1000, size 0x2000, and name "foo"
  - another with base address 0x3000, size 0x4000, and name "bar"

interrupts

array

Information about interrupts generated by the device, encoded as an array
of one or more interrupt specifiers. The format of the data in this property
varies by where the device appears in the interrupt tree. Devices with the same
"interrupt-parent" will use the same format in their interrupts properties.

For details, see "2.4 Interrupts and Interrupt Mapping" in
Devicetree Specification v0.4.

See Important properties for more information.

interrupts-extended

compound

Extended interrupt specifier for device, used as an alternative to
the "interrupts" property.

For details, see "2.4 Interrupts and Interrupt Mapping" in
Devicetree Specification v0.4.

interrupt-names

string-array

Optional names given to each interrupt generated by a device.
The interrupts themselves are defined in either "interrupts" or
"interrupts-extended" properties.

For details, see "2.4 Interrupts and Interrupt Mapping" in
Devicetree Specification v0.4.

interrupt-parent

phandle

If present, this refers to the node which handles interrupts generated
by this device.

For details, see "2.4 Interrupts and Interrupt Mapping" in
Devicetree Specification v0.4.

label

string

Human readable string describing the device. Use of this property is
deprecated except as needed on a case-by-case basis.

For details, see "4.1.2 Miscellaneous Properties" in Devicetree
Specification v0.4.

See Important properties for more information.

clocks

phandle-array

Information about the device's clock providers. In general, this property
should follow conventions established in the dt-schema binding:

  https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/blob/main/dtschema/schemas/clock/clock.yaml

clock-names

string-array

Optional names given to each clock provider in the "clocks" property.

#address-cells

int

This property encodes the number of <u32> cells used by address fields
in "reg" properties in this node's children.

For details, see "2.3.5 #address-cells and #size-cells" in Devicetree
Specification v0.4.

#size-cells

int

This property encodes the number of <u32> cells used by size fields in
"reg" properties in this node's children.

For details, see "2.3.5 #address-cells and #size-cells" in Devicetree
Specification v0.4.

dmas

phandle-array

DMA channel specifiers relevant to the device.

dma-names

string-array

Optional names given to the DMA channel specifiers in the "dmas" property.

io-channels

phandle-array

IO channel specifiers relevant to the device.

io-channel-names

string-array

Optional names given to the IO channel specifiers in the "io-channels" property.

mboxes

phandle-array

Mailbox / IPM channel specifiers relevant to the device.

mbox-names

string-array

Optional names given to the mbox specifiers in the "mboxes" property.

power-domains

phandle-array

Power domain specifiers relevant to the device.

power-domain-names

string-array

Optional names given to the power domain specifiers in the "power-domains" property.

#power-domain-cells

int

Number of cells in power-domains property

zephyr,deferred-init

boolean

Do not initialize device automatically on boot. Device should be manually
initialized using device_init().

wakeup-source

boolean

Property to identify that a device can be used as wake up source.

When this property is provided a specific flag is set into the
device that tells the system that the device is capable of
wake up the system.

Wake up capable devices are disabled (interruptions will not wake up
the system) by default but they can be enabled at runtime if necessary.

zephyr,pm-device-runtime-auto

boolean

Automatically configure the device for runtime power management after the
init function runs.

zephyr,disabling-power-states

phandles

List of power states that will disable this device power.

Specifier cell names

  • pwm cells: channel, period, flags