AVR-Chat

Dave,

Am I correct in understanding that your dec-to-zero timers then
would trigger a pulse, and depending on the acc/decel you set the
timers to a greater/smaller count to influence the time between
the interrupt and thus the step pulse?

Geert


Dave VanHorn wrote:
> 
>  >
>  >Would this be the way to go or are there other possibilities?
> 
> It works nicely. Remember to ramp down as well, you can't stop a motor
> instantly unless it's running very slowly.
> 
> You may find that you need more timers, but you can share timers to a 
> degree.
> I use T0 (because it's relatively dumb) for my 1mS opsys tick, that runs a
> bunch of Dec-to-zero timers for different tasks. You might be able to do a
> similar thing, depending on your other needs.