Owner's manual

32 Function Block and Operation Theory
Figure 4-7: External Digital Trigger Polarity and Pulse Width Re-quirement.
4.4.3 PXI Star Trigger
When you select PXI Star Trigger as the trigger source, the PXI-
2020/2022 can accept a TTL-compatible digital signal as a trigger
signal. The trigger occurs when a rising edge or falling edge is
detected at PXI Star Trigger. You can use software to configure the
trigger polarity. The minimum pulse width requirement of this digi-
tal trigger signal is 12.5 ns.
4.4.4 PXI Trigger Bus
The PXI-2020/2022 utilizes PXI Trigger Bus[5] as System Syn-
chronization In-terface (SSI). Using the interconnected bus pro-
vided by PXI Trigger Bus, you can easily synchronize multiple
modules. When configured as input, the PXI-2020/2022 is served
as a slave module and can accept three different SSI signals,
SSI_TIMEBASE (PXI Trigger Bus[0]), PXI Trigger Bus[5] and PXI
Star Trigger Bus[1]. When confi-gured as output, the PXI-2020/
2022 is served as a master module and can output
SSI_TIMEBASE, SSI_AD_TRIG or SSI_ADCONV to PXI Trigger
Bus. Each signal is dedicated routed from the PXI Trigger Bus[5].
Rising edge trigger
event
Falling edge trigger
event
Pulse Width > 12.5 ns Pulse Width > 12.5 ns