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I want to produce 12 bit resolution from Pi hardware pwm pin for my project. Please help me to go in right way as I am new to both Python and Pi.

import time
import pigpio as pi
import RPi.GPIO as g
g.setmode(g.BOARD)
g.setwarnings(False)
pi.set_PWM_range(12,4000)
print(pi.get_PWM_range(12))
g.setup(12,g.OUT)
p=pi.PWM(12,4000)
p.start(0)
try:
  while 1:
        for i in range(0,100,5):
           p.ChangeDutyCycle(i)
           time.sleep(0.1)
           print(i)
        for i in range(100,0,-5):
           p.ChangeDutyCycle(i)
           time.sleep(0.1)
           print(i)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
  pass
p.stop()
g.cleanup()

By runing this getting multiple error, i.e: 

AttributeError: module 'pigpio' has no attribute 'set_PWM_range'
Ghanima
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  • You seem to be mixing up RPi.GPIO and pigpio PWM on the same GPIO. RPi.GPIO is only software PWM. pigpio is hardware timed PWM. The pigpio calls you are using do not use the special features of the Pi's hardware PWM peripheral. I give an example of using the hardware PWM peripheral in the script in my answer to this question. – joan Jan 10 '20 at 16:24
  • Hi @ram, the following two PWM controllers might help. (1) I2C PCA9685 16-Channel 12-bit PWM Controller Module https://www.adafruit.com/product/815

    (2) UART Controlled PWM Signal Generator https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/104779/how-can-rpi4b-python-uart-talk-to-xy-pwm-signal-generators

     – tlfong01 Jan 11 '20 at 14:34
  • You can find cheap PCA9685 PWM controller modules from AliExpress, Amazon etc.：https://imgur.com/gallery/iNzjvCL – tlfong01 Jan 12 '20 at 07:39

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Yes. You can do far better.

My pigpio Python module will give a million steps for frequencies less than 250 Hz.

pigpio will give a resolution of 250 million divided by the frequency in hertz that you want to use.

See hardware_PWM

Example Script

#!/usr/bin/env python

import time
import pigpio

PWM=18

FREQ=5000

pi = pigpio.pi()

if not pi.connected:
   exit()

for percent in range(100): # 0-100 percent
   pi.hardware_PWM(PWM, FREQ, percent * 1000000 / 100)
   time.sleep(0.2)

pi.hardware_PWM(PWM, 0, 0) # stop PWM

pi.stop()
joan
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    i go through pigpio module and tried without success.i am posting my code also,not exactly getting the way. – ram Jan 10 '20 at 12:02