Very short durations - what's the correct interpolation?

[WilliamHPNielsen]

How should we deal with very short segments? What is closest to what the user needs and how do AWG's usually handle short pulses?

If we supply an array of voltages [0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1] at a given sample rate, when do we expect voltage changes to happen?

Given the following input:

Which of the three following scenarios do we expect the AWG to (attempt to) realise? How should broadbean's plotting reflect that?

@dmtvanzanten @Dominik-Vogel @nataliejpg

[Dominik-Vogel]

I think this is to some degree a matter of taste. To me the most intuitive seems to be number one: at time t set voltage to. Number two seems counterintuitive: who would want to specify the times up to which a voltage has a certain value? And number three I would expect to find as an additional feature linear_interpolation=False that is false by default.
The second most intuitive option, to my mind, is missing here, where the changes appear instantaneously half way between two segments.

[jenshnielsen]

Surely number 3 is linear interpolation == True?

[Dominik-Vogel]

I wanted to underline that False is a default.

[jenshnielsen]

Ok I get it, You are saying that its linear interpolation == True that activates it but thats False by default

[nataliejpg]

get an AWG and an oscilloscope and check? I would guess its number 3 but checking seems most sensible.