Auto zero ............................................................................................. 4-7
NPLC caching ...................................................................................... 4-7
Triggering ................................................................................................... 4-9
Triggering types ................................................................................... 4-9
Measurement triggering ..................................................................... 4-10
Front panel triggering ......................................................................... 4-11
Remote triggering .............................................................................. 4-12
Basic source-measure procedure ............................................................ 4-13
Front panel source-measure procedure ............................................ 4-13
Remote source-measure procedure .................................................. 4-14
Measure only ............................................................................................ 4-16
Sink operation .......................................................................................... 4-17
Ohms measurements ............................................................................... 4-18
Ohms calculations ............................................................................. 4-18
Ohms ranging .................................................................................... 4-18
Basic ohms measurement procedure ................................................ 4-18
Ohms sensing .................................................................................... 4-19
Sense selection ................................................................................. 4-20
Remote ohms programming .............................................................. 4-21
Power measurements .............................................................................. 4-22
Power calculations ............................................................................. 4-22
Basic power measurement procedure ............................................... 4-22
Remote power programming ............................................................. 4-23
Contact check measurements .................................................................. 4-24
Overview ............................................................................................ 4-24
Contact check commands ................................................................. 4-24
Contact check programming example ............................................... 4-26
5 Sweep Operation
Overview .................................................................................................... 5-2
Section overview ................................................................................. 5-2
Sweep overview .................................................................................. 5-2
Sweep characteristics ................................................................................ 5-3
Linear staircase sweeps ...................................................................... 5-3
Logarithmic staircase sweeps .............................................................. 5-4
Pulse sweeps ....................................................................................... 5-6
Custom (list) sweeps ........................................................................... 5-7
Sweep measurement storage .............................................................. 5-8
Sweep functions ......................................................................................... 5-8
Staircase sweep functions ................................................................... 5-9
Pulse sweep functions ....................................................................... 5-10
Custom sweep functions ................................................................... 5-10
Running sweeps ....................................................................................... 5-11
Front panel ......................................................................................... 5-11