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Best way to control a servo?

Hi,

This might be a little OT but I've been exploring a few new ways of controling a servo.

I'm using a 8051 board of my own design, a Hitec HS300BB servo and the control line of the servo is connected to a digital out line.

Up untill now I've been using code similar to this:

sbit P1_1 = P1^1;
unsigned int wait;

P1_1 = 1;
for(x = 0; x <= wait; x++);
P1_1 = 0;
for(x = 0; x <= wait; x++);

This solution works but it isn't a very nice way of doing it cause it's strongly depended on lots os variables like overhead and processing power.

For my question, what is considerd to be the best way of controlling a servo which isn't as sensitive for overhead? (with the material I have ofcourse) Some example code would be apriciated.

TIA,
Mike

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0 Richard Collett over 22 years ago in reply to Mike Akkerman

Borrow a Digital Storage Oscilloscope (DSO), then you can check exactly what sort of pulse your chip is outputting.
This avoids the awkward "two unknowns" problem. ("Is it my software, or is it the hardware?")
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0 Richard Collett over 22 years ago in reply to Mike Akkerman

Borrow a Digital Storage Oscilloscope (DSO), then you can check exactly what sort of pulse your chip is outputting.
This avoids the awkward "two unknowns" problem. ("Is it my software, or is it the hardware?")
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