Are we still using only 256 unique PWM steps?

[Michael Hill]

It seems like that limitation should be lifted when using the cRIO board, which appears to be a rebranded NI-9076 board running the Xilinx Spartan-6 LX45 FPGA, which looks like it is a 16-bit controller, and that seems to usually be the "bit chokepoint" when trying to generate a pwm signal.....This isn't a limitation by the victors or jags are they? I haven't taken apart a Victor, but it looks like there are just a bunch of LM317s in there. It looks like there's a large capacitor. Now if you just have an RC filter in there (which explains the large cap), there should be no problem accepting a higher resolution PWM signal. I haven't tried this. Would that be possible to do? Sometimes 8-bits just isn't enough.