System SourceMeter® Instrument Reference Manual Table
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 3-20
Sweep characteristics ............................................................................................................. 3-22
Configuring and running sweeps ............................................................................................. 3-29
Sweeping using factory scripts ................................................................................................ 3-30
Sweep programming examples ............................................................................................... 3-31
Triggering ........................................................................................................................... 3-32
Remote triggering overview..................................................................................................... 3-32
Using the remote trigger model ............................................................................................... 3-34
SMU event detectors ............................................................................................................... 3-39
Using trigger events to start actions on trigger objects ............................................................ 3-40
Digital I/O port and TSP-Link synchronization lines ................................................................ 3-41
Timers ..................................................................................................................................... 3-43
Event blenders ........................................................................................................................ 3-49
LAN triggering overview .......................................................................................................... 3-50
Command interface triggering ................................................................................................. 3-52
Trigger generator .................................................................................................................... 3-53
Manual triggering .................................................................................................................... 3-53
Interactive triggering ................................................................................................................ 3-53
Hardware trigger modes .......................................................................................................... 3-57
Understanding synchronous triggering modes ........................................................................ 3-61
High-capacitance mode ..................................................................................................... 3-65
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 3-65
Understanding high-capacitance mode ................................................................................... 3-65
Enabling high-capacitance mode ............................................................................................ 3-67
Display operations .............................................................................................................. 3-70
Display functions and attributes .............................................................................................. 3-70
Display features ...................................................................................................................... 3-70
Display messages ................................................................................................................... 3-71
Input prompting ....................................................................................................................... 3-75
Indicators................................................................................................................................. 3-77
Local lockout ........................................................................................................................... 3-78
Load test menu ....................................................................................................................... 3-78
Running a test from the front panel ......................................................................................... 3-80
Key-press codes ..................................................................................................................... 3-80
Digital I/O ........................................................................................................................... 3-82
Digital I/O port ......................................................................................................................... 3-82
Using output enable ................................................................................................................ 3-86
Interlock .................................................................................................................................. 3-88
TSP-Link synchronization lines ............................................................................................... 3-89
Theory of operation .................................................................................................... 4-1
Analog-to-digital converter ................................................................................................... 4-1
Source-measure concepts ................................................................................................... 4-1
Overview ................................................................................................................................... 4-1
Compliance limit principles ........................................................................................................ 4-2
Overheating protection .............................................................................................................. 4-2
Operating boundaries ................................................................................................................ 4-5
Basic circuit configurations ...................................................................................................... 4-20
Guard ...................................................................................................................................... 4-24
Measurement settling time considerations ......................................................................... 4-26
For controlling settling time delay ............................................................................................ 4-27
For analog filter (Models 2634B/2635B/2636B only) ............................................................... 4-27
Effects of load on current source settling time ................................................................... 4-27
Creating pulses with the Series 2600B .............................................................................. 4-28