Starting Kpulse - Keithley 4200A-SCS Reference Manual

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In this section:

Keithley Pulse Application ...................................................... 10-1

Triggering ............................................................................... 10-3

Standard pulse waveforms ..................................................... 10-4

Segment Arb waveforms ........................................................ 10-6

Custom file arb waveforms (full arb) ....................................... 10-9

Keithley Pulse Application

Keithley Pulse Application (KPulse) is a non-programming alternative that you can use to configure

and control the installed Keithley pulse cards. You can use it for quick tests that require minimal

interaction with other 4200A-SCS test resources.

The KPulse application supports the source-only configuration of 4225-PMU and 4220-PGU

2-channel pulse cards. The 4225-PMU is identified as PMU on the card tab. All other card types are

identified as VPU.

Starting KPulse

To open KPulse, double-click KPulse on the desktop. The following example shows one PMU

installed in the system.

From the user interface, each pulse generator can be used to configure and control the following

waveform types:

Standard pulse waveforms

are configured and run from the VPU or PMU tabs of KPulse. There is a tab for every Keithley

pulse card installed in the 4200A-SCS.

Custom file arb waveforms (full-arb)

file using the Arb Generator tab of KPulse. You can then use the VPU or PMU tab to load the

saved .kaf file into the pulse generator and run it.

KPulse (for Keithley Pulse Cards)

(on page 10-4) and

Segment Arb waveforms

(on page 10-9): Pulses are configured and saved as a .kaf

(on page 10-6): Pulses