Agilent Technologies B1500A Manuale utente

Agilent Technologies

Agilent B1500A

Semiconductor Device

Analyzer

VXIplug&play Driver

User’s Guide

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Manual Part Number

B1500-90020

Edition

Edition 1, July 2005

Edition 2, April 2006

Edition 3, August 2011

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

5301 Stevens Creek Blvd

Santa Clara, CA 95051 USA

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applicable in any technical data.

In This Manual

This manual describes the installation and reference information of the

VXIplug&play driver for the Agilent B1500, and consists of the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, “Installation”

Describes the installation information of the B1500 VXIplug&play driver.

• Chapter 2, “Driver Functions”

Describes the reference information of the B1500 VXIplug&play driver.

• Chapter 3, “Programming Examples for Visual Basic Users”

Provides programming examples using the B1500 VXIplug&play driver on

Microsoft Visual Basic environment.

• Chapter 4, “Programming Examples for C++ Users”

Provides programming examples using the B1500 VXIplug&play driver on

Microsoft Visual C++ environment.

Microsoft, Windows, Visual Basic, and Visual C++ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Borland and

C++ Builder are trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland Software Corporation. LabWindows and LabView are

registered trademarks of National Instruments Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective

owners.

Contents

Agilent B1500 VXIplug&play Driver User’s Guide, Edition 3

1. Installation

System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Installing VXIplug&play Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4

Before Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

2. Driver Functions

Function List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

Status Code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14

Function Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16

agb1500_abortMeasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16

agb1500_addSampleSyncIv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16

agb1500_asuLed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17

agb1500_asuPath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17

agb1500_asuRange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18

agb1500_autoCal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18

agb1500_clearCorrData . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19

agb1500_clearSampleSync. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19

agb1500_close . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19

agb1500_cmd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20

agb1500_cmdData_Q. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20

agb1500_cmdInt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20

agb1500_cmdInt16Arr_Q. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21

agb1500_cmdInt16_Q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21

agb1500_cmdInt32Arr_Q. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21

agb1500_cmdInt32_Q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22

agb1500_cmdReal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22

agb1500_cmdReal64Arr_Q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22

agb1500_cmdReal64_Q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-23

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agb1500_cmdString_Q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-23

agb1500_dcl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24

agb1500_error_message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24

agb1500_error_query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24

agb1500_errorQueryDetect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25

agb1500_errorQueryDetect_Q. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25

agb1500_execCmuAdjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25

agb1500_execLoadCorr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-26

agb1500_execOpenCorr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-27

agb1500_execShortCorr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28

agb1500_force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28

agb1500_forceCmuAcLevel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-29

agb1500_forceCmuDcBias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30

agb1500_init. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30

agb1500_measureBdv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-31

agb1500_measureIleak. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-31

agb1500_measureM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-32

agb1500_measureP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-33

agb1500_msweepIv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-34

agb1500_msweepMiv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-36

agb1500_opc_Q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-38

agb1500_readData . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-38

agb1500_readStatusByte_Q. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-39

agb1500_recoverOutput. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-39

agb1500_reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-40

agb1500_resetTimestamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-40

agb1500_revision_query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-40

agb1500_sampleIv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-41

agb1500_scuuLed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-43

agb1500_scuuPath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-44

agb1500_self_test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-45

agb1500_setAdc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-46

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agb1500_setAdcType . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-46

agb1500_setBdv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-47

agb1500_setCmuAdjustMode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-48

agb1500_setCmuFreq. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-48

agb1500_setCmuInteg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-48

agb1500_setCv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-49

agb1500_setFilter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-50

agb1500_setIleak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-50

agb1500_setIv. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-51

agb1500_setLoadCorrMode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-52

agb1500_setNthSweep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-53

agb1500_setOpenCorrMode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-54

agb1500_setPbias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-54

agb1500_setPiv. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-56

agb1500_setSample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-57

agb1500_setSampleMode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-59

agb1500_setSerRes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-60

agb1500_setShortCorrMode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-60

agb1500_setSweepSync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-61

agb1500_setSwitch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-62

agb1500_spotCmuMeas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-62

agb1500_spotMeas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-64

agb1500_startMeasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-65

agb1500_stopMode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-67

agb1500_sweepCv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-68

agb1500_sweepIv. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-70

agb1500_sweepMiv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-72

agb1500_sweepPbias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-74

agb1500_sweepPiv. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-76

agb1500_timeOut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-78

agb1500_timeOut_Q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-78

agb1500_zeroOutput . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-78

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3. Programming Examples for Visual Basic Users

Programming Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

To Create Your Project Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

To Create Measurement Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6

High Speed Spot Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7

Multi Channel Spot Measurement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

Pulsed Spot Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14

Staircase Sweep Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18

Multi Channel Sweep Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-34

Pulsed Sweep Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-44

Staircase Sweep with Pulsed Bias Measurement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-50

Breakdown Voltage Measurement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-56

Leakage Current Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-59

4. Programming Examples for C++ Users

Programming Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3

To Create Your Project Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3

To Create Measurement Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6

High Speed Spot Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7

Multi Channel Spot Measurement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9

Pulsed Spot Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11

Staircase Sweep Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13

Multi Channel Sweep Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-23

Pulsed Sweep Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-29

Staircase Sweep with Pulsed Bias Measurement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-33

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Breakdown Voltage Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-37

Leakage Current Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-39

Sampling Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-41

High Speed Spot C Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-45

CV Sweep Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-49

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