Agilent Technologies Agilent 33500 Series, User Manual

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Chapter 3 Features and Functions
Triggering
3
External Triggering In the external trigger mode, the waveform
generator will accept a hardware trigger applied to the rear-panel
Trig In connector. The waveform generator initiates one sweep or
outputs one burst each time Ext Trig receives a TTL pulse with the
specified edge.
See also “Trigger Input Signal,” on the following page.
• Front-Panel Operation : The external trigger mode is like the manual
trigger mode except that you apply the trigger to the Ext Trig
connector. To select the external source, press and then
Trg Src
and
Ext
.
To specify whether the waveform generator triggers on the rising or
falling edge, press the
Trigger Setup
softkey and select the desired
edge direction by pressing
Slope
.
• Remote Interface Operation :
TRIGger:SOURce EXTernal
Use the following command to specify whether the waveform
generator triggers on the rising or falling edge.
TRIGger:SLOPe {POSitive|NEGative}