Eliminate Servo Jitter from Your Project!

Servo control is a very common function that Arduino boards perform in a lot of projects.  Robots, drones, actuators, and a variety of mechanized motion solutions are driven by servo motors.  Arduino boards can do a good job of controlling servos provided that the number of servos remains low and the microcontroller is not tasked with many other functions.

However, generally speaking, Arduino-based servo control solutions suffer from servo jitter and twitching due to the 8-bit micro not being able to maintain precise timing required on the Pulse-Width-Modulation (PWM) signal that controls the servo.  If the tight timing required to maintain absolute servo position is not met, the servo will jitter between locations until refreshed from the micro.  This can cause significant issues where accurate, stable servo performance is required.

The Servo XB completely eliminates this “jitter”.  By implementing the PWM functionality as a standalone hardware block in the FPGA, perfectly timed signals are continuously supplied to the servos without taxing the microcontroller at all.  Even better, the number of servos being driven can scale up without any additional burden to the board since they are each being controlled by a standalone XB block.