Keysight Technologies B2900 Series, User Manual

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Keysight B2900 User’s Guide, Edition 5 4-3
Front Panel Reference
Hard Keys and Rotary Knob
Hard Keys and Rotary Knob
Standby switch
Turns the instrument on or off. When the power is on, the LED below the switch is
turned green.
Trigger
Starts a single (one shot) output/measurement or initiates trigger system. If a repeat
measurement is in progress, stops it.
The single measurement is performed with the DC bias output, staircase sweep
output, pulsed bias output, or pulsed sweep output set to the channel. One single
measurement can contain the maximum of 100000 measurement points.
Once a single measurement starts, the data buffer (maximum 100000 data) is
cleared, and the last single measurement result is stored in the buffer. The
measurement result is displayed on the Single view, Dual view, Graph view, or Roll
view. Also the last single measurement result can be listed and displayed on the
Measure Result dialog box.
Auto
Starts a repeat (continuous) measurement. If a repeat measurement is in progress,
stops it. The repeat measurement is performed with the DC bias output of the Source
value. And the measurement result is displayed on the Single view, Dual view, or
Roll view. The repeat measurement result is not stored in the buffer.
The repeat measurement is performed with the following trigger setup. Settings of
“Trigger parameters” are ignored.
• Acquire trigger (measurement trigger): Initiate
• ARM acquire count: Infinite
• ARM acquire source: AUTO (automatic internal)
• TRIGger acquire count (Measure Count) 100
• TRIGger acquire source (Measure Trigger): AUTO (automatic internal)
• TRIGger acquire timer period (Measure Period): 10 ms (this is automatically
extended if the measurement is not completed.)
• Trigger delay (Source Delay=Measure Delay): 0 s
• Trigger output: Disable
View
Changes the display mode. See “Display and Assist Keys” on page 4-6 .