We just purchased the AFG1062 and we're trying to use an external trigger to initiate 10 KHz sinusoidal output precisely 1 second after the onset of the external trigger (i.e., delayed output). We can't delay the trigger as it marks the onset of another event and we only have 1 trigger source. I can't find any obvious options for outputting a sinusoid using an external trigger with an option for putting in a delay, so I suspect that the only route is to use an arbitrary waveform. If this is correct, is there a way to upload an arbitrary waveform? Given a 10 KHz smooth sine wave for 1 second, I anticipate that I need about 50,000 points to define the curve (though more might be better). Since I need a 1-second quite period before all of this, and unless I'm mistaken there's now way to set the "time" of each point, that would mean that I also need 50,000 points between 0-1 seconds, all of which would be 0V. However, I don't want to manually program 50,000 points to define a smooth 10 KHz sine wave for 1 second. Is there another way to do this? I could programmatically write the vector in Matlab, or even Excel if there's a way to upload the waveform to the AFG1062. If there's an alternative way to get a 10 KHz sine wave that is 1 second in duration and starts 1 second after an external trigger, please let me know.
