Running a Trigger

To activate a trigger press the function key you assigned it to. This will automatically put SI_SCOPE into trigger mode. You should see the text "TRIG" appear in the upper right hand corner of the screen (SI_SCOPE will display this string whenever it is monitoring for a trigger). How SI_SCOPE behaves at this point depends on how you programmed the trigger.

• If you programmed the trigger's action to have SI_SCOPE switch from idle to active mode then SI_SCOPE will stop displaying the activity on the line until the current trigger is detected. At this point the trigger is said to have matured and SI_SCOPE will turn its display on as normal.
• If you programmed the trigger to switch SI_SCOPE from active to idle mode then SI_SCOPE does just the opposite. That is it will continuously display all line activity as normal until the trigger matures. At that point SI_SCOPE will switch into idle mode only if the matured trigger was linked to another trigger. The reason for this is so that you do not accidentally turn SI_SCOPE's display off permanently.