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3152A User Manual
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Gated Mode ......................................................................................................................3-21
Burst Mode .......................................................................................................................3-22
Selecting the Trigger Source................................................................................................3-23
Using the Internal Trigger Generator ................................................................................3-23
Selecting the Trigger Slope ..............................................................................................3-24
Using the Trigger Delay ....................................................................................................3-24
Selecting the Trigger Level ...............................................................................................3-25
Using the Soft Trigger.......................................................................................................3-25
Generating Arbitrary Waveforms..........................................................................................3-25
What Are Arbitrary Waveforms? .......................................................................................3-26
Arbitrary Memory Management ........................................................................................3-26
Memory Management Commands ...................................................................................3-27
Loading Arbitrary Waveforms ...........................................................................................3-28
High Speed Segment Downloads.....................................................................................3-31
Reversing Byte Order .......................................................................................................3-33
Selecting Binary Download Forma ...................................................................................3-34
Using Shared Memory ......................................................................................................3-34
16-Bit Shared....................................................................................................................3-36
Memory Download............................................................................................................3-36
Sequences ...........................................................................................................................3-39
Generating Sequenced Waveforms .....................................................................................3-39
What Are Sequenced Waveforms? ..................................................................................3-39
High Speed Sequence Downloads ...................................................................................3-42
Triggered Sequence Advance ..........................................................................................3-44
Triggered Sequence Advance Commands.......................................................................3-45
Backplane Inter-Module Synchronization .........................................................................3-45
Front-Panel Phase Synchronization.....................................................................................3-47