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Section 2: Model 4200-SCS Software Environment
Section 2
Model 4200-SCS Software Environment
Understanding KITE
The Keithley Interactive Test Environment (KITE) is the main software component of the KTE
Interactive software tool set. KITE is the primary user interface for the Keithley Instruments Model
4200 Semiconductor Characterization System (SCS). KITE is a versatile tool that facilitates
interactive characterization of an individual parametric test device or automated testing of an entire
semiconductor wafer.
Two additional KTE Interactive software tools augment the capabilities of KITE:
•
Keithley User Library Tool (KULT)
: Used to create test modules, using the C programming
language. These test modules can then be executed by KITE.
•
Keithley CONfiguration utility (KCON)
: Used to manage the configuration and
interconnections between all of the test system components that are controlled by KITE.
A fourth KTE Interactive software tool, the Keithley External Control Interface (KXCI) allows the
Model 4200-SCS to be controlled remotely by an external GPIB controller.
NOTE
KXCI and KITE, cannot run simultaneously.
Beginning with KTE Interactive 6.0, two optional KTE Interactive tools have been added:
•
Keithley Pulse tool (KPulse):
A virtual front panel software application used to control the
optional pulse generator cards. The dual-channel pulse generator cards are integrated
inside the Model 4200-SCS mainframe.
•
Keithley Scope tool (KScope):
A virtual front panel software application used to control
the optional scope card. The scope card is a dual-channel digital storage oscilloscope that
is integrated inside the Model 4200-SCS mainframe.
NOTE
Although KScope and KPulse can be launched at the same time as KITE, KScope /
KPulse and KITE cannot communicate with hardware simultaneously.
KITE project structure
This subsection overviews the primary features of KITE. These features allow you to create,
execute, and evaluate tests and complex test sequences, interactively and without programming.
This subsection also overviews use of an essential companion tool, KULT, which allows you to
create libraries of specialized user test modules (UTMs) that run in KITE
(KULT is discussed in
detail in the
Reference Manual, Keithley User Library Tool (KULT), page 8-1
KITE interface
The KITE application consists of a variety of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that allow you
to do the following:
• Customize existing / supplied interactive test modules (ITMs) or create new ITMs from
existing templates.
• Create UTMs from supplied or user-programmed C-code modules.
• Automatically execute tests and associated operations (switch matrix connections, prober
movements, and so on), including:
• A single test for one selected device (transistor, diode, resistor, and so on).
• A sequence of tests for one selected device.
• A sequence of tests for multiple devices, for example, all of the devices contacted by a
prober at a given touchdown or subsite location on a semiconductor wafer.
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