The ability to manually trigger waveforms is available in the Moku app and API libraries. This feature allows multiple phase synchronized waveforms to be triggered simultaneously. This was previously only available with an external trigger signal. 

Moku App

Configure the waveform generator to have ‘Burst’ modulation and configure the trigger to ‘Manual’. The ‘Burst mode’ can either be set to ‘NCycle’ or ‘Start’.

Once all the necessary generators are configured, click on the settings tab and select ‘Manually trigger all channels’. This will apply the trigger signal to all waveforms configured to have a manual trigger.

Moku API (Python)

from moku.instruments import WaveformGenerator

wg=WaveformGenerator('192.168.2.200', force_connect=True)

# Configure the waveforms of each channel 
wg.generate_waveform(channel=1, type='Sine', amplitude=1, frequency=1e6)
wg.generate_waveform(channel=2, type='Square', amplitude=1, frequency=1e6, duty=50)
wg.generate_waveform(channel=3, type='Ramp', amplitude=1, frequency=1e6, symmetry=50)
wg.generate_waveform(channel=4, type='Sine', amplitude=0.5, frequency=1e6)

# Configure burst mode on each channel 
wg.set_burst_mode(channel=1, source='Manual', mode='NCycle', burst_cycles=3)
wg.set_burst_mode(channel=2, source='Manual', mode='Start')
wg.set_burst_mode(channel=3, source='Manual', mode='NCycle', burst_cycles=1)
wg.set_burst_mode(channel=4, source='Manual', mode='Start')

# Call manual_trigger() to send a trigger signal to each channel
wg.manual_trigger()


wg.relinquish_ownership()