Tektronix Keithley 4200A-SCS - Set up Communications on the 4200 A-SCS

Section 9: Using a Cascade Microtech PA200 Prober Model 4200A-SCS Prober and External Instrument Control
9-6 4200A-913-01 Rev. A December 2020
Set up communications on the 4200A-SCS
On the 4200A-SCS, you need to set the communications through the prober configuration file.
The configuration file for use with serial communications is shown below. To configure the prober for
use with a GPIB communications setup, use a text editor to comment out (#) the lines after
"Configuration for PA200 probers" and activate the lines (remove the #) after "Configuration for direct
GPIB probers." Be sure to only activate the lines that start with PROBER_1_....
Configuration file location: C:\s4200\sys\dat\prbcnfg_PA200.dat
# prbcnfg_PA200.dat - DEFAULT Prober Configuration File
#
# The following tag, "PRBCNFG", is used by the engine in order to determine
# the MAX number of SLOTS and CASSETTES for a given prober at runtime.
#
<PRBCNFG>
#
# for OPTIONS "" == NULL, max 32 chars in string
#
# Example
# 01234567890
#PROBER_1_OPTIONS=1,1,1,1,1,1
#
#
# OcrPresent
# AutoAlnPresent
# ProfilerPresent
# HotchuckPresent
# HandlerPresent
# Probe2PadPresent
#
#
# Configuration for PA200 probers:
# PA200
#
PROBER_1_PROBTYPE=PA200
PROBER_1_OPTIONS=0,0,0,0,1,0
PROBER_1_IO_MODE=SERIAL
PROBER_1_DEVICE_NAME=COM1
PROBER_1_BAUDRATE=9600
PROBER_1_TIMEOUT=300
PROBER_1_SHORT_TIMEOUT=5
PROBER_1_MAX_SLOT=25
PROBER_1_MAX_CASSETTE=1
#
#
#