Building a Custom Trigger Crossbar System for Electronics Lab Instrumentation
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Summary
The article discusses the challenges of managing multiple electronic instruments with trigger ports in a well-equipped electronics lab. It explains how to build a custom trigger crossbar system to efficiently route trigger signals between various test equipment like oscilloscopes, signal generators, and vector network analyzers, enabling complex multi-instrument setups without constantly reconnecting cables.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledIf you have a large, well-equipped electronics lab you're going to have a lot of instrumentation with trigger input and output ports.
Very often, it's handy to cascade these in order to enable complex multi-instrument setups (for example, having a scope trigger when an AWG creates a pulse).
And that doesn't even count the ThunderScope or the two Siglent AWGs I have on loan for ThunderScope R&D.
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