Agilent 4155B/4156B User’s Guide Vol.2, Edition 5 4-33
Making a Measurement
Sweep Measurements
To Use R-Box
1. Connect the 16441A R-Box to the 4155B/4156B and to the 16442A Test Fixture
or connector plate on your shield box. For details about connections, refer to
“R-BOX Control” in Chapter 3.
2. Press Chan front-panel key of the PAGE CONTROL key group.
3. Select CHANNEL DEF primary softkey to display the CHANNELS:
CHANNEL DEFINITION screen.
4. In the SERIES RESISTANCE fields, select:
• 0 ohm secondary softkey to connect 0 W resistance.
• 10k ohm secondary softkey to connect 10 kW resistance.
• 100k ohm secondary softkey to connect 100 kW resistance.
• 1M ohm secondary softkey to connect 1 MW resistance.
Resistance is switched just before and just after measurement state. In the standby
state, the stress force state, and the idle state, 0 W is connected.
The 4155B/4156B automatically compensates for the resistance values.
For the following SMUs, you can set 0 W only:
• SMU that is set to ON in the STBY field.
• SMU that is set to COMMON in the MODE field.
You can set resistance values for the following SMUs.
• If the 41501A/B SMU/Pulse Generator Expander is not installed or does not
have an HPSMU
• SMU1
• SMU2
• If the 41501A/B has an HPSMU
• SMU1
• SMU5