Pause and resume arbitrary wave generation with PWM

[Jose Cazarin]

I'm able to generate a square wave like the one in the picture using the PWM

What I want to know is: is there a way to momentarily pause the generation of such wave and resume from where it left off?

From the tests I did, if I stop the PWM and restart it again, it will start generating the wave from the beginning. So looks like there's no way to do that since there's no method to "pause" the PWM generation in the SDK. I just want a Nordic employee to confirm my hypothesis.

Thank you so much!

[haakonsh]

I'm afraid pausing and resuming is not possible with the PWM peripheral. 

[Jose Cazarin]

Thank you for the answer!

[haakonsh]

Though you can do it if you create a PWM with TIMER and GPIOTE, and use the TASKS_STOP and TASKS_START. 
The arbitrary waveform might be a bit tricky to implement though

[Jose Cazarin]

That's overkill for us, and we are kind of short on the timers. But it is good enough now for what we need, thanks