Section 2: General operation
Models 707B and 708B Switching Matrix Reference Manual
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707B-901-01 Rev. B / January 2015
To set up labels from the front panel:
1. Display a channel (you might need to press
DISPLAY
first).
2. Select the channel for which you want to set labels.
3. Press
CONFIG
, then press
CHAN
.
4. Use the navigation wheel to select the type of label you want to define:
LABEL:
Sets the label that is displayed on the front panel for the specified crosspoint.
LABEL-ROW:
Sets the label that is displayed on the front panel for the specified row.
LABEL-COL:
Sets the label that is displayed on the front panel for the specified column.
5. Change the name using the navigation wheel .
6. Press the navigation wheel to save the change.
To set up labels from the web interface:
1. From the list on the left, select the slot that contains the channel you want to set up a label on.
2. Right-click the channel.
3. In the Label box, enter the label.
4. Click
OK
.
To set up labels from the remote interface:
Use the commands:
•
(on page 7-43)
•
(on page 7-46)
•
(on page 7-44)
You can use labels to refer to the channels in commands. For example, if you set the label for
channel 3005 to "start", you could use "start" to close and open the channel.
This is shown in the following example:
channel.setlabel("1A01","start")
channel.close("start")
channel.setlabelrow("1B01", "SMU2")
channel.setlabelcolumn("1B01", "DUT2")
channel.close("SMU2+DUT2")
print(channel.getclose("allslots"))
Channel patterns
You can use channel patterns as a convenient way to refer to a group of switching channels with a
single alphanumeric name. When you perform close or open operations on a channel pattern, only
the channels that are in the channel pattern are affected.
There is no speed difference when performing close and open operations on channel patterns
compared to performing the same operations on individual channels or a list of channels.
