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esca User’s Manual v1.2 

 

 

 

The  following  instructions  have  to  be  followed  to  obtain  capacitance  and  resistance 
estimations. 

Capacitance estimation: 

 

Activate the “

Triangular Wave

” check box; 

 

Set  the  best  range  between  200  pA  and  20  nA 

(NOTE:  for  capacitance  values 

higher  than  about  17pF  select  the  20nA  range  in  order  to  avoid  amplifier 
saturation)

 

Check that the acquired current is a square waveform; 

 

Click on the “

C estimation

” button. 

Resistance estimation: 

 

Be sure the “Triangular Wave” check box is NOT checked; 

 

Set a Vc value between 10 mV and 355 mV; 

 

Check that the acquired current is constant, greater than 0 A and not saturating 
the amplifier; 

 

Click on the “

R estimation

” button. 

The  “

Saturation

”  indicator  means  the  input  current  exceeded  the  maximum  or 

minimum current value for the selected Range. 

T

RACE 

V

ISUALIZATION

 

 

The  data  visualization  is  based  on  a  freeware  dll  written  by  Michael  Bernstein  (more 
info on www.oscilloscope-lib.com). 

Click  on  the  “

Show

”  button  to  activate  the  visualization  window  that  displays  the 

acquired input current. 

The  visualization  window  enables  to  display  up  to  3  channel  concurrently  in  a 
oscilloscope like approach. 

Each beam can be associated to a specific data channel in the EDR GUI. In the case of 
ESCA devices, since  there is only one channel available, the beams setup in the GUI 
can be left unchanged. 

 

In  the  bottom  of  the  display  window  there  are  the  buttons  necessary  to  control  the 
visualization. 

In particular, from left to right, these are the button functions: 

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Страница 1: ...esca Elements Single Channel Amplifier User s Manual v1 2 February 2014...

Страница 2: ...esca User s Manual v1 2 CONTACTS Elements s r l via Montalti 42 47521 Cesena ITALY email info elements ic com web www elements ic com...

Страница 3: ...SETUP 4 Front Connections 5 Rear Connections 5 Tipical Experimental Setup 5 SOFTWARE GUIDE 6 Requirements 7 Installation 7 Software Operating Procedure 9 Graphical User Interface 10 ESCA Setup 11 Digi...

Страница 4: ...all size 30x15x74mm software included HARDWARE SETUP ESCA is designed to be as simple as possible to connect to your various different setups In order to obtain the best performance the main things to...

Страница 5: ...ct is the reference voltage IMPORTANT Do NOT short the reference to the ground REAR CONNECTIONS On the rear of ESCA there are two connectors mini B female USB connector to connect to the PC through th...

Страница 6: ...ssible from the Faraday cage including your Device Under Test DUT With certain PC there can be some issues with USB power supply that can introduce noise and peaks on the acquired signal In these case...

Страница 7: ...ements are Dual core processor 1GHz or better 1GB of RAM A free USB 2 0 port Windows XP Vista Seven 8 INSTALLATION To start the installation procedure double click on the installation executable EDR_s...

Страница 8: ...esca User s Manual v1 2 Click on Extract to prepare the installation of these drivers Then start the FTDI installation by clicking on Next button and wait until installation finishes...

Страница 9: ...ree USB port The first time you connect the ESCA to your PC you must wait for the new USB device complete recognition NOTE If the blue LED in the rear of ESCA doesn t light up or if you receive an ins...

Страница 10: ...with the ESCA hardware The configuration file is loaded by clicking on the Open Config button The configuration file is ESCA_xxx cfg where xxx is the firmware version of your ESCA device The configura...

Страница 11: ...addition to the Open Config button already described in the previous section the following buttons Connect Starts the communication with the ESCA hardware Show Displays the data visualization window...

Страница 12: ...the next section the digital compensation is described The Triangular Wave check box is used to force a 48 Hz triangular wave control voltage of peak to peak amplitude of 118 mVpp This voltage signal...

Страница 13: ...software includes some statistical data analysis done in real time during the current acquisitions These estimated statistic data are Mean value Standard Deviation STD Equivalent input capacitance Equ...

Страница 14: ...on the R estimation button The Saturation indicator means the input current exceeded the maximum or minimum current value for the selected Range TRACE VISUALIZATION The data visualization is based on...

Страница 15: ...om level Set vertical 0 point in the middle of the window Change the grid dimensions Change the vertical offset shift Change the horizontal offset shift Search for a channel NB useless with ESCA devic...

Страница 16: ...mat used by commercial pClamp software from Molecular Devices First choose which format will be used by clicking on File Preferences To start saving data click on the Save button The data are saved in...

Страница 17: ...es are stored in standard 32 bit single precision format little endian The ESCAread Matlab function will ask you the location of the saved data files and the data bandwidth The function returns in thr...

Страница 18: ...an array with 2 columns 1 channels vc C reshape B 1 2 fix length B 2 2 D C select sampling frequency display Select bandwidth display 1 625 Hz display 2 1 25 kHz display 3 5 kHz display 4 10 kHz sel i...

Страница 19: ...esca User s Manual v1 2...

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