Ext. trig. does not work in arb. waveform gen. in burst mode

Title says it all pretty much. It works in the “standard” waveform generator, which btw has also an option for internal triggering source, which would be a welcome feature on the AWG instr. as well.

Hi @mschuette,

I’m not able to reproduce this issue, are you able to share more information or screenshots of your setup?

To get the AWG to use the external trigger in burst mode I connected Output 1 of “Moku-000965” to the External trigger of “Devvy 96” and then connected Output 1 of “Devvy 96” to Input 1 of “Moku-000965” to view the signal in the Oscilloscope. The signal connected to the External trigger was a 1 Hz, 1 Vpp square wave with an offset of 500.0 mV to ensure it exceeded the 700 mV trigger threshold of the Ext. trigger. I’ve attached screenshots of this setup for you.


I hope this helps and please share more information about your setup if this does not help,
Indira

Dear Indira,

I’m using a 10Hz, 0-5V TTL trigger on the external input. I tested everything from 1us to 50% duty cycle. I think the 700mV trigger threshold does not apply to the external trigger, it is just the setting when using Inputs 1-4 for triggering and becomes inactive when the ext. trigger is selected. But since the trigger works on the standard waveform generator, I think this is not the problem.

Please try generating bursts of 4096 exponential decay pulses at 4.5MHz rep rate and 1.2Gsa/s with 256 manual points and 355° phase. Try doing this for output 1 and 2 simultaneously.