DAC PWM glitch problem with STM32

With the project STM32: microSD Wav audio player with touchscreen I use microcontroller's PWM as 10 bit DAC but in first version of firmware I have found an annoying glitch during playback.

(coming soon video with glitch problem)

This problem is typical when you use TIM_OC1Init(TIM1,&TIM1_OCInitStructure) function to obtain PWM with costant frequency and variable duty cycle.

To solve this problem you can follow these steps:

First step: The initialization code

The initialization code is:

TIM_TimeBaseInitTypeDef  TIM_TimeBaseStructure;

TIM_OCInitTypeDef  TIM_OCInitStructure;

TIM_DeInit(TIM1);

/* Time Base configuration */

TIM1_TimeBaseStructure.TIM_Prescaler = 0x0;

TIM1_TimeBaseStructure.TIM_CounterMode = TIM_CounterMode_Down;

TIM1_TimeBaseStructure.TIM_ClockDivision = 0x0;

TIM1_TimeBaseStructure.TIM_Period = 1020;

/* Channel 1,3 Configuration in PWM mode */

TIM1_OCInitStructure.TIM_OCMode = TIM_OCMode_PWM1;

TIM1_OCInitStructure.TIM_OutputState = TIM_OutputState_Enable;

TIM1_OCInitStructure.TIM_OCPolarity = TIM_OCPolarity_Low;

TIM1_OCInitStructure.TIM_OCIdleState = TIM_OCIdleState_Set;

TIM1_OCInitStructure.TIM_Pulse = 1024/2;

TIM_TimeBaseInit(TIM1,&TIM1_TimeBaseStructure);

TIM_OC1Init(TIM1,&TIM1_OCInitStructure);

TIM_OC3Init(TIM1, &TIM1_OCInitStructure);

/* TIM1 counter enable */

TIM_Cmd(TIM1,ENABLE);

TIM_CtrlPWMOutputs(TIM1,ENABLE);

Second step: Update Duty cycle periodically

After initialization, if you want to update duty cycle periodically, you don't use a TIM_OC1Init(TIM1,&TIM1_OCInitStructure) function because you load all field of TIM1_OCInitStructure struct losing firmware efficiency inevitably and causing a glitch during playback but you must update the PWM writing the registers directly as follows:

TIM2->CCR2 = duty1;
TIM2->CCR3 = duty2;