Description
The Designer Systems DS-SCX16S Servo Control IC provides a flexible control interface between a RS232 (i.e. PC) or I2C (i.e. OOPic, BASIC Stamp) compatible device and sixteen standard servos. Once connected each servo can be positioned (with speed control), enabled, reversed and soft-started by simply writing a value to an internal register over the connected RS232 or I2C interface. The DS-SCX16S caters for the majority of servos by providing a wide pulse width range of 0.50mS to 2.50mS with 8uS per step accuracy, provides global activation of new servo position, soft-start & movement complete registers, a check-sum register for RS232 control and support for the Savage Innovations Serial Control Protocol (SCP) on the RS232 interface. Up to eight (8) DS-SCX16S IC's can be connected to the same controlling interface by specifying a version suffix when ordering. Versions run from 0 to 7 and allow a maximum of 128 servos to be controlled from one interface.

A Windows XP/2000/ME PC application is available, see documentation to the right, to allow simple control of all 16 servos over the serial interface. Click here for a screen shot.

Products and accessories

DS-SCX16S-n

16 Servo serial/I2C controller IC

n= 0 to 7

Product support
Please email us at support@designersystems.co.uk 

RoHS compliant product

DS-SCX16S PC application (zip)

Availability and pricing
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