This probably has a name, but can't really pin it!
I have a traditional cheap sine/triangle/square 12M or so signal generator. It has sweep etc. but it does not have a setting that I can simply send out exact amount of pulses.
There must be a simple product somewhere?
I can see very complicated arbitary signal signal generators that can produce all sorts of serial communication protocols etc. some even tempting cheap, but they need laptop and to learn a new scripting language and all that extra.
I remember when I was studying we had all that lab equipment that would do stuff and we could use simple counter/pre scaler with gate-function to count the pulses from generator and gate some multiples of ten out.
Could cobble out arduino stuff....but I see myself on doing this increasingly offten and I', looking at the signal generator trigger and TTL BNC connectors and thinkking one more little box....even if I have to solder together some eBay specials.
Now my needs are modest:
* TTL-level input/output, a little of overvoltage/negative voltage protection or buffer on socet would be nice
* Modest speed, generally 100 kHz or so would be most of the time enough
* Amount of pulses random: one to least 2k
* own simple TTL pulse generator plus, but I have one that has two output PWM, phase angle and all that.
I checkked the manual of my generator and it does not provide this simpply. Apparently I could learn another scripting language, do it on PC, hook it up on my signal generator and play it out....but I am such a old timer that I rather not.
Pekka