Tektronix KEITHLEY 2600B Series

Section 2: Sourcing and measuring Series 2600B System SourceMeter® instrument Reference Manual
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Figure 26: Logarithmic staircase sweep (1 V to 10 V, five steps)
In this example:
A = 0, V
start
= 1, V
end
= 10, N = 5
Using the formula above, k = 1
Step size (b) for the sweep in the above figure is calculated as follows:
Therefore, b = 10
(log step size)
= 1.7783