DC Motor Interfacing With PIC Microcontroller

Using L293 Motor Driver IC

L293d is an H Bridge bidirectional motor driver IC used to interface DC motor
and stepper motors to Microcontrollers.

CircuitsGallery.com already discussed about the working principle of L293 IC

with an example of bidirectional motor driver circuit.It is very easy to make a
DC motor control using microcontroller. In this article Im gonna show you
the interfacing of DC motor with PIC16F877A microcontroller
using L293D motor driver with the help of Mikro C coding and Proteus 8
simulation. Basically it is a bidirectional motor driver circuit with PIC MCU.This is
the most common circuit in robotics engineering. Im sure this article will be
helpful for PIC MCU beginners.

What is H Bridge?
H bridges are widely discussed topic in electronics. As we know, just changing
the polarity of supply voltage causes rotating of DC motor in reverse direction.

But this method is not suitable for practical circuit. So, how to run DC motor
in clockwise and anti-clockwise direction without changing the supply polarity?
Here comes the importance of H Bridge. In a typical H Bridge circuit two pairs
of transistors are connected in a bridge fashion and the motor is driven through
the collector terminal.

Read more: H Bridge motor driver circuit using transistors

Why L293?
Obviously we know that ICs make life easy!

The transistor based H bridges are little complex and bulky and also time
consuming while implementing practically.
L293 is basically an H bridge IC capable of driving two motors
simultaneously, that means it has two embedded H bridges inside!

Interfacing of L293 to DC motor and microcontroller is very easy and simple

process.
The specialty of L293 is that it has dedicated Enable Pin to control the motor.
By manipulating this pin it is possible to control the speed of dc motor with
Pulse Width Modulation technology.

Read more: Bidirectional motor driver circuit using L293DC Motor

Schematic diagram

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Components required
1. PIC16F877A
2. L293d
3. DC Motor
Tools Required:

1. Mikro C Pro
2. Proteus design suit

Mikro C code for DC motor interface

The Switch at PORTD.F2 is responsible for direction changing of motor. We
have also used PWM speed controlling method here in order to use this program
for further development for robotics.

Program Logic

We are applying 0x01 = 0000 0001 and 0x02 = 0000 0010 to the input
pin of L293 driver IS using micro controller.
According to this inputs the direction of motor will change. (Refer below
table to understand the basic configurations of L293 IC).