09 | Keysight | Using Source/Measure Unit as an Ammeter – Demo Guide
5. (Optional) Conguring the measurement speed
In the default setting, the instrument selects the appropriate measurement speed and
range automatically to get the ne accuracy. However, you can also specify these
parameters on the GUI of the B2900A Series SMU to meet a variety of the requirement
to the measurement conditions.
For example, let’s try to change the measurement speed to NORMAL to make a mea-
surement more carefully. If you select NORMAL, the aperture time is set to 1 PLC. Here,
PLC stands for power line cycle and the specied number of power line cycles is used
per a measurement.
1) Press to edit the Measurement speed, and then select to set the
Measurement speed to NORMAL. (If you can’t see in Assist keys, press
to change the keys shown in Assist keys.)
6. (Optional) Conguring the measurement range operation
The parameters which congure the measurement range operation can be displayed in
the Range Sub-panel in the Channel 1 Single View. In the default setting, the B2900A
Series SMU performs the current measurement using a 1 μA current minimum measure-
ment range with AUTO range operation. With AUTO range operation, the B2900A Series
SMU selects the proper range for the measurement with the specied minimum mea-
surement range so that you don’t need to take care about it. To know how to change the
measurement range setting, try to congure to use the 10 μA current minimum mea-
surement range with AUTO range operation.
1) Rotate and press to edit the Current minimum measurement range and then
select to set it to 10 μA.
If you’d like to x the measurement range, you can select FIXED range operation as below.
2) Rotate and press to edit the Current measurement range operation. Then
Select to set the Current measurement range operation to FIXED.
