Model 2601B-PULSE System SourceMeter Instrument Reference Manual Section 4: Sourcing and measuring
2601B-PULSE-901-01A April 2020 4-67
The number of points in a sweep is one greater than the number of steps in the sweep.
The following figure is an example of a five-point logarithmic sweep from 1 V to 10 V.
Figure 66: 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