Agilent Technologies B1500A

2-10 Agilent B1500 VXIplug&play Driver User’s Guide, Edition 3
Driver Functions
NOTE Auto ranging mode
SMU uses the optimum range to force/measure voltage or current.
NOTE Limited auto ranging mode
SMU uses the optimum range to force/measure voltage or current. Then, the SMU
never uses the range less than the specified range.
Table 2-4 SMU output voltage, resolution, and compliance by range
Output
range
(actually
used)
Setting
resolution
in V
Output
voltage
a
in V
a. Parameter name may be base, bias, peak, value, start, stop, and so on.
Maximum comp value
b
in A
b. This column shows the maximum value of the current compliance.
HPSMU MPSMU HRSMU
0.5 V 25E-6 0 to ± 0.5 NA ±100E-3 ±100E-3
2 V 100E-6 0 to ± 2 ±1 ±100E-3 ±100E-3
5 V 250E-6 0 to ± 5 NA ±100E-3 ±100E-3
20 V 1E-3 0 to ± 20 ±1 ±100E-3 ±100E-3
40 V 2E-3 0 to ± 20 ±500E-3 ±100E-3 ±100E-3
to ± 40 ±50E-3 ±50E-3
100 V 5E-3 0 to ± 20 ±125E-3 ±100E-3 ±100E-3
to ± 40 ±50E-3 ±50E-3
to ± 100 ±20E-3 ±20E-3
200 V 10E-3 0 to ± 200 ±50E-3 NA NA