Keithley 2601 Reference Manual page 9

Series 2600 System SourceMeter® Instruments Reference Manual
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2600S-901-01 Rev. C / January 2008
Basic Operation
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Overview ..................................................................................................... 4-2
Operation overview ..................................................................................... 4-2
Source-measure capabilities
Compliance limit ................................................................................... 4-3
Setting the compliance limit
Basic circuit configurations
Operation considerations
Warm-up ............................................................................................... 4-6
Auto zero .............................................................................................. 4-6
NPLC caching....................................................................................... 4-6
Basic source-measure procedure
Front panel source-measure procedure
Remote source-measure procedure
Measure only............................................................................................. 4-11
Sink operation ........................................................................................... 4-12
Ohms measurements ................................................................................ 4-12
Ohms calculations .............................................................................. 4-12
Ohms ranging ..................................................................................... 4-12
Basic ohms measurement procedure
Ohms sensing..................................................................................... 4-13
Sense selection .................................................................................. 4-14
Remote ohms programming
Power measurements ............................................................................... 4-16
Power calculations.............................................................................. 4-16
Basic power measurement procedure
Remote power programming
Contact check measurements................................................................... 4-17
Overview............................................................................................. 4-17
Contact check commands
Contact check programming example
Sweep Operation
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Overview ..................................................................................................... 5-2
Section overview................................................................................... 5-2
Sweep overview.................................................................................... 5-2
Sweep characteristics ................................................................................. 5-3
Linear staircase sweeps
Logarithmic staircase
Pulse sweeps........................................................................................ 5-6
Custom (list) sweeps
Sweep measurement
Sweep functions.......................................................................................... 5-7
Staircase sweep functions
Pulse sweep functions
Custom sweep functions....................................................................... 5-9
Running sweeps.......................................................................................... 5-9
Front panel............................................................................................ 5-9
Sweep programming examples
Range, Digits, Speed, Rel, and Filters
Overview ..................................................................................................... 6-2
Range.......................................................................................................... 6-2
Available ranges ................................................................................... 6-2
Maximum source values and readings
Ranging limitations
Manual ranging ..................................................................................... 6-3
Auto ranging ......................................................................................... 6-3
Low range limits.................................................................................... 6-3
Range considerations
Range programming
Digits ........................................................................................................... 6-6
Setting display resolution...................................................................... 6-6
Remote digits programming.................................................................. 6-6
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sweeps............................................................... 5-4
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storage............................................................... 5-7
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